Too bad my mother didn't know about this 25 years ago

I saw this today about scoliosis and egoscue. When I was 15 and had an S curve rapidly increasing in my spine, my mother took me to three doctors for three opinions. They all said surgery and Harrington rod, which is what happened. Too bad we didn't know about this 25 years ago:

http://egoscueportland.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/scoliosis/

2nd day on the Tower

This am I did it again. Top three levels for right leg, five minutes each level. Then repeated on left leg. I felt nothing in back area. I did feel it in my hyper-extended knees. I have to gingerly bend my knee out of a level when time is up. When standing, it takes a couple of seconds before knees feel normal again. BUT, I did ten jump squats afterwards, and I think my knees cracked less! We will see. Also it seemed like my left foot was not acting its usual everted way as I walked around the living room.

Good thing I asked my husband to take this photo b/c I was able to see that I needed to turn my left foot in more, which is easy to do in that easy chair.

So, once again, my routine this morning was:

Static Back - 5 minutes
The Tower - 30 minutes total
Air Bench - 2 minutes

The Tower

It's been sitting, assembled, in my living room for weeks. I finally did the exercise this morning for the first time. I played this video while I lay there. I did five minutes on each of the top three levels on the right leg, then the same for the left. Good thing I was listening to the video as I lay there because my knee felt hyper-extended, and that was addressed by the therapist. He said that the tower doesn't feel great for people with knee issues while they're in the exercise (and I don't have pain there, but I do have very creaky knees as we all know) but afterwards you feel good.

I didn't notice much in my back. Then again my back doesn't arch at all because of my spinal rod. I really just felt the hyperextension of the knees. Also my foot was turned out a bit but I couldn't manage to pull it back in. I'll take a picture next time.

A half-hour for this exercise is pretty good! I'll work up to the hour. I also did Static Back for five minutes before the Tower, and I did Air Bench for two minutes after that. Of course, my body felt better after doing these three ecises than it did before. Then I did ten jump thrusts. My knees didn't creak for the second half of those. I believe that I need to strengthen my muscles (in addition to egoscue) in order for the creakiness to fade. Sitting at my desk all day doesn't really strengthten muscles. Just so you know.