Katharina schroth was a German woman who had scoliosis. She wanted to find a way to correct her scoliosis without using surgery, but using exercises. Her daughter was a physiotherapist and they thought of an exercise program by trial and error to work muscles on the back which would correct her scoliosis.
How did she discover Rotational breathing?
Rotational breathing - came into kathrinas mind when she looked at a small sports ball which had
a dimple inside it. As she squeezed the ball it exerted pressure to the dimple from the inside, which pushed it outwards.
She thought that this 'inward' pressure on the ball could be used with the human body
if you exert pressure front he inside to the collapsed lung, you could Expand it outwards.
As this collapsed lung is connected by the spine, the spine would twist the opposite 'humped' ribcage forwards, so it would be a rotation effect. As this rib hump would be pushing inwards, as time goes on, and exercises would be performed, the muscles would eventually be educated to keep this correction of the rib hump going inwards. This would push the rib hump in, flattening it. ie- reducing it !
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