Three-Dimensional Treatment for Scoliosis: A Physiotherapeutic Method for Deformities of the Spine

by Christa Lehnert-Schroth, Christiane Mohr (Translator), Alistair Reeves (Translator)

Three-dimensional scoliosis therapy has for decades played an established role in the conservative management of mild and even of severe scoliosis. As well as describing every aspect of the pathologically curved, deformed spine, this textbook incorporates an extensive programme of exercises that can be tailored specifically to the needs of the individual patient. As outlined in Three-Dimensional Scoliosis The Schroth Breathing Orthopaedic System, correction of the spinal deformity is based on a special breathing technique and active muscle stretching, as well as on elongation, detorsion and reduction of lordosis. The provision of psychological support for the patient is also emphasised as a key element. Christa Lehnert-Schroth born 1924 in Meissen She worked as a physiotherapist for about 50 years with scoliosis patients and further developed her mother's breathing orthopaedic technique with great success. Between 1961 and 1995 Christa Lehnert-Schroth - always surrounded by physicians - was director of the private Katharina-Schroth-Klinik in Bad Sobernheim/Germany. In many lectures, articles, seminars and films for physiotherapists and medical doctors in addition to recorded discs for patient's training at home she illustrated her mother's special method for scoliosis assuring well being of many patients and in honor her mother's legacy.

292 pages, Paperback

First published September 5, 2000

About the author

Christa Lehnert-Schroth literally devoted her entire life to treating scoliosis patients. The daughter of Katharina Schroth, who had developed a system of physical therapy to halt and reverse scoliosis and related spinal deformities, young Christa began helping her mother in her clinic already as a child.

She later completed formal training as a physical therapist and continued working in her mother's practice in Meissen, near Dresden, in the then-East Germany.

In 1955 the two emigrated to the West and eventually settled in Bad Sobemheim, Rhineland, where they established a new clinic to treat patients from all over Germany and from abroad. Christa soon became its director, serving until her retirement in 1995.

She trained hundreds of therapists in the Schroth method, and supervised treatment of more than 10,000 patients. Long after retirement, she continued to find great satisfaction advising therapists and treating occasional patients, the latest case still active at the time of her death.

Her legacy is carried forward by a steadily growing number of therapists as well as her son, Dr. Hans-Rudolf Weiss, who continues to practice and develop Schroth therapy.

Christa Lehnert-Schroth will be sorely missed and her spirit forever revered by many thousands of patients and therapists all over the world.