One-on-one Functional Patterns coaching for people with scoliosis, across a wide range of Cobb angles and including severe curves. I retrain how you stand, breathe, rotate and load, so your body has a reason to organise differently, instead of just monitoring the number on a scan.
Free 30-minute consultation · no deposit, no card · then a place on the waitlist
Told to “watch and wait” and come back for another X-ray, while nothing addresses how you move day to day.
You know your Cobb angle but not what to actually do about it, beyond watching whether it progresses.
Pain, stiffness or fatigue that builds from years of the same compensation, usually on one side.
Bracing, stretches or generic core exercises that never change how you load your body.
A rib hump, uneven shoulders or a hip that sits higher that you can see and feel, but nobody is training.
Being told severe scoliosis means surgery or nothing, with no middle option offered.
A scoliosis isn’t just “a curve”. It sits alongside vertebral rotation, a shifted ribcage, an oriented pelvis and a one-sided breathing pattern, and all of that loads your spine the same way thousands of times a day. Change those inputs and your body has a reason to organise differently over time.
Your Cobb angle, the angle measured off a standing X-ray between the most tilted vertebrae at the top and bottom of your curve, is a useful reference point. It tells me how much compensation is built in and how patient to be. It doesn’t tell me what your body is actually doing, and it doesn’t put you in a box. People I train include:
What I don’t do is sort you into a category and hand you the matching protocol. Two people with the same Cobb angle and the same curve type can need almost opposite work, because what drives a curve is how that particular person stands, breathes, rotates and loads. That’s what the assessment is for.
This is the part most people have never had explained to them. A curve isn’t a local problem sitting in your back waiting to be released. It’s a whole-body organisation, and changing it means working on four things together, over months rather than sessions.
Not just that you’re asymmetrical, but exactly where and in which direction. Which way your vertebrae rotate, which side your ribs sit back on, how your pelvis is oriented, which foot takes more load. Two people with the same Cobb angle can need almost opposite work.
Your spine doesn’t act alone. A foot that can’t pronate and supinate properly changes what your pelvis does, which changes what your ribs and neck have to do. I treat the body as one continuous system, because that’s how it loads.
Force travels through connected myofascial chains and slings that wrap the trunk diagonally, shoulder to opposite hip. In a scoliosis those chains pull unevenly. Stretching the tight side alone just gives the same pattern a longer rope.
The goal is coordination and sequencing: the right muscles switching on in the right order, so movement gets shared. That means getting motion back into the segments that have stopped contributing, and taking load off the ones doing everyone else’s work.
So no, I can’t fix a scoliosis in a week, and I won’t tell you a foam roller and a stretch will do it. What I can do is show you, in one session, exactly which asymmetries are driving yours and what changing them would involve.
A biomechanics-first method built on one principle: your structure reflects your repeated inputs. Rather than chasing the curve, I upgrade how you stand, walk, breathe, hinge, rotate and load, so your body organises around your spine differently.
I find the compensations feeding your asymmetry, a shifted ribcage, uneven foot loading, one-sided breathing, and retrain them, rather than stretching the symptom for an hour.
Standing, walking, running, throwing. Restore these and the trunk and pelvis start loading with control and rotation through both sides, not the same daily bias.
I measure with video, photos and clear movement benchmarks so progress is objective rather than a feeling. Any re-imaging is arranged through your own doctor.
On Cobb angle reductions. Practitioners working with the Functional Patterns method have documented reductions in Cobb angle in clients they’ve trained, alongside improvements in pain, breathing and function. Those are individual results, and I won’t promise you a number. What I commit to is training the inputs driving your curve and measuring what changes, so you can judge it for yourself.
Short clips from sessions in the studio and from my own training. Slide through.
“His attention to detail has meant I now understand which parts of my body are switching on and working together and which ones aren’t. I was never going to get anywhere with the specialists or surgery as, fundamentally, no one was addressing how I’ve held and moved my body my whole life.”
★★★★★ Cass Holeczy · Google review
Outcomes vary.
You don’t have to decide anything about long-term training today. Come in for 30 minutes, at no charge, and find out whether this is right for your scoliosis.
A full 30 minutes at no charge. Your scoliosis history and any imaging, then a proper movement, breathing and gait assessment. Bring your X-ray or Cobb angle if you have one.
I look at what’s contributing to your scoliosis, where your deficiencies are, and what can be done to begin working on the structure, so you know exactly where to start to make real progress.
Weekly one-on-one sessions with coaching, progression and short homework, working towards results like reductions in pain and small, gradual changes to your structure. No lock-in, and the pace is set around you.
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Both. I work right across the range, mild curves through to severe scoliosis where surgery has already been raised, and with adolescent idiopathic, teen and adult degenerative presentations. A larger Cobb angle usually means more compensation to work through and a slower rate of change, not that training is off the table. What matters more than the number is how you currently stand, breathe and load, which is what the assessment looks at.
Practitioners using the Functional Patterns method have documented reductions in Cobb angle in clients they’ve worked with, alongside improvements in pain, breathing and function. Those are individual results, and I won’t promise you a number. What I do commit to is training the inputs that drive the curve and measuring what changes. Any re-imaging is arranged through your own doctor.
Longer than a week, and it isn’t about releasing a tight muscle. Most people notice changes in pain, breathing and control within the first few weeks. Structural change is a longer project, measured in months of consistent training, because you’re retraining myofascial chains and joint motion across the whole body rather than one area. Outcomes vary.
It’s coaching, not treatment, and it isn’t a scoliosis-specific exercise protocol or a brace. Rather than holding a corrective position or monitoring the curve, I coach the movements you repeat thousands of times a day: standing, gait, breathing, rotation, and how you load through your feet and pelvis. Many clients train with me alongside their specialist, physio or bracing program rather than instead of it.
Yes, if you have one. A recent standing X-ray with a Cobb angle, curve location and any note on vertebral rotation gives me a useful reference point. It isn’t a requirement though, and I don’t diagnose or interpret imaging as a medical practitioner would.
Thirty minutes at no charge, in the Malvern East studio. I go through your scoliosis history, any imaging or bracing, and what bothers you day to day. Then a full movement and gait assessment: standing posture, trunk shift, rib position, how you breathe, and how you load left versus right. I show you what I’m seeing and what I’d work on first, with no obligation to book anything.
No catch. It’s a full 30-minute session at no charge, because the fastest way to show you this works is to just show you. You get a full biomechanical assessment, covering movement, breathing and gait, plus hands-on work. No deposit and no card. Booking takes a minute because I ask a few short questions first, about your goals and the time and budget you can realistically commit, so I can plan the session before you walk in. If you want to keep training after that, sessions are booked as you go with no lock-in.
Then don’t guess, and don’t commit to anything yet. Come in for a free 30-minute consultation and let me look at your curve, your gait and how you breathe, and I’ll tell you honestly whether I think I can help. Bring your most recent X-ray or Cobb angle if you have one. You keep the plan whether you train with me or not. I’m fully booked for ongoing training right now, so after the session I’ll add you to my waitlist and you’ll be first to hear when a spot opens up.
Pick a time that suits you below and it’s booked, no back and forth. I’m fully booked for ongoing training, so after the session I’ll add you to my waitlist. No deposit and no card. Booking takes a minute because I ask a few short questions first, about your goals and the time and budget you can realistically commit, so I can plan the session before you walk in.
Tell me about your scoliosis, your Cobb angle if you know it, and what you want to change, and I’ll come back to you, usually within 48 hours.
Melbourne · Malvern East · Functional Patterns. This is movement coaching to help you improve how you move, breathe and load; it’s not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and it doesn’t diagnose, treat or cure scoliosis. I don’t interpret imaging as a medical practitioner would, and any Cobb angle measurement or re-imaging is arranged through your own doctor. Outcomes vary. If you’re under medical care, I can work alongside it.
