{"id":4242,"date":"2017-10-23T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rknstudio.com\/osteopilateswork\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2018-09-28T07:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:18:41","slug":"scolio-pilates-dayton-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rknstudio.com\/osteopilateswork\/scolio-pilates-dayton-childrens-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Scolio-Pilates at Dayton Children’s Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does this mean to you to have Scolio-Pilates at a children’s hospital?<\/p>\n

Are you an instructor? Pilates has just taken a big step forward towards medical acceptance.<\/p>\n

Are you someone living with scoliosis? Now you have a precendence for an entire team working together to care for your scoliosis. The gap that exists in communication between your medical doctor, your physical therapist and your Pilates Instructor is closing.<\/p>\n

While scoliosis is traditionally managed through observation, bracing and surgery, Dayton Children\u2019s Hospital has taken a ground-breaking step to include Scolio-Pilates, a 3-dimensional exercise program for scoliosis, to their list of management tools for their patients. It’s ground-breaking for a hospital, for Pilates Instructors and most importantly, ground-breaking for you if you as you try to manage your own.scoliosis.<\/p>\n

Thank you. To you all.<\/p>\n

Your belief in the Scolio-Pilates work remains the essential item that makes Scolio-Pilates, in any form, a reality. At Dayton Children\u2019s, a new platform for Scolio-Pilates is offered: a children\u2019s hospital with a collaborative effort between the entire medical team to support each scoliosis patient. Medical doctors, orthotists and physical therapists all working and communicating with one another towards a common goal: a healthier scoliosis patient.<\/p>\n

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Karena assists Mandy, a physical therapist at Dayton Children’s Hospital, in working with a young girl with scoliosis,<\/p><\/div>\n

Why Dayton Children\u2019s?<\/p>\n

More than any other children\u2019s hospital, why is this hospital so progressive in its commitment to scoliosis care? It probably has to do with their intense commitment to their mission: \u201cDayton Children\u2019s will be an active advocate for children. We will work to develop local, state and national health policies that reflect the needs of children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keyword: Action.<\/p>\n

I believe the keyword in their mission statement is \u201cactive\u201d. It is a very big action to believe so intensely in helping your children, that you are willing to be the first hospital to pioneer Scolio-Pilates.. In September, the debut month for the Scolio-Pilates program at Dayton Children\u2019s, Ann Smith, DPT, MS, PCS, director of physical therapy at Dayton Children\u2019s made the first public presentation of Scolio-Pilates at the hospital\u2019s annual orthopedic symposium. She states that \u201cThe physical therapists and pediatricians from the community were incredibly receptive! It\u2019s so rewarding to give a talk and see heads nodding in agreement!\u201d \u00a0And with 80 Scolio-Pilates visits in the first month, their commitment to their children is clearly being welcomed by the families that they serve<\/p>\n

The Scolio-Pilates Mission.<\/p>\n

Dayton Children\u2019s dedication to their mission has also helped us take a big step forward in our own mission: \u201cTo add Scolio-Pilates, a 3-dimensional exercise program, to the list of traditional management tools for scoliosis (observation, bracing and surgery).\u201d We would like to see all children that are eligible, given the chance to perform Scolio-Pilates. And who is eligible? Dayton Children\u2019s says it best on their web page for Scolio-Pilates<\/a>. It reads:<\/p>\n

\u201cScolio-Pilates can benefit the following types of scoliosis patients:<\/p>\n