Scoliosis Forum

Elise Browning Miller is famous for her therapeutic use of yoga to help people with scoliosis. In the article she has written for YogaJournal - a site where you can find wealth of information about yoga with easy-to-use instructions on how to do asanas, Ms. Browning writes about those asanas and their modifications that will certainly help reduce pain and improve posture of scoliosis patients. It is recommendable that you do these asanas with a supervision of a certified instructor.

* lateral deviation of the normal vertical line of the spine which, when measured by X-ray, is greater than ten degrees. Scoliosis consists of a lateral curvature of the spine with rotation of the vertebrae within the curve.
www.srs.org/patients/glossary.asp

* Lateral (sideways) curvature of the spine
www.sauk.org.uk/glossary.htm

* The condition of side-to-side spinal curvature.
www.canorth.org/en/resources/glossary.asp