Scoliosis help

[Marine86]

I have just been diagnosed with scoliosis at 20 degrees, I have an appointment with a specialist this Tuesday, I was wondering If anyone here has this same problem or if anyone knowes if I can keep bodybuilding or is this the end of my bodybuilding career

 

[_cato_]

Depends on what you mean. If you're asking whether you can weight train with it, then yes you can definitely do that. If you're asking whether it may affect you at actual bodybuilding competitions, then the answer is maybe. If it creates an obvious asymmetry in your back musculature then you could run into problems.

It also depends on the nature of it and how you got it, whether in the womb or through poor posture or what. Some scoliosis can be fixed/alleviated with weight training/posture correction.

 

[Marine86]

That's encouraging, thank you, it's more for me more than competing, my whole life I was fat, about 5'10 and 280 and over 25% bf, now at 210 and 8%, I just fear all my hard work will be destroyed due to this

 

[stevesmi]

get a second opinion. i can remember in school when they would test us for that i would always get picked as possibly having it. then once we were checked i would be fine. so don't go by one opinion, always get a few for something serious like this. and i don't understand if you have that why they didn't catch it when you were younger in school?

 

[Marine86]

I was tested once in school when I was 9 and I had bad posture but they said spine was okay, I just went in with bad lower back pain and that's when the doc said I had it. Hope it wasn't the gear, but I don't see how that could cause that

 

[_cato_]

It's really not that serious when you're talking about minor curve, which is what you have. Minor curves in adults don't usually progress and 20 degrees isn't significant enough to warrant corrective measures.

Unless you're in the unlikely scenario that it's progressing during your adulthood (which it almost certainly isn't since your doc said it's only 20 degrees), it's just something you're going to have to live with, and your life won't be any different now than it was before.

And I don't see how gear could even indirectly cause that to happen.