Dr. Dolly Garnecki |
In July of this year Dolly Garnecki, D.C., Florida ’07, president
of Spinal Health & Wellness, Charlottesville, Va., completed
a tour of China where she made a presentation at the Annual
Summer Conference of the Chinese Society of Medical
Rehabilitation. Dr. Garnecki’s seminar focused on the latest
treatment protocols in non-surgical intervention for scoliosis.
She also worked alongside doctors at the first non-surgical
scoliosis treatment clinic at Xin Hua hospital in Shanghai.
“Our goal was to help doctors in China realize that reducing scoliosis
without surgery is a reality,” said Dr. Garnecki. “It is life
changing for patients. If the spine developed into scoliosis it can
also be untwisted, decompressed and straightened … naturally.”
Xin Hua Hospital in Shanghai is known as the most prestigious
pediatric hospital in China. The Chinese medical rehabilitation
doctors who attended the spinal conditions seminar were eager to
learn and to apply corrective exercises for scoliosis rehabilitation,
Dr. Garnecki said. “It was exciting to teach other doctors who
treat scoliosis patients the advanced healing techniques to reduce
scoliosis without the use of bracing or surgery.”
About nine months ago, Dr. Garnecki was contacted by the father
of an adolescent boy with scoliosis. She referred the family to the
Xin Hua Hospital and its rehabilitation department. So that his
son could receive better treatment
for his spinal condition,
the father relocated his family
to Shanghai. “The young man
and his family were grateful
that I traveled to Shanghai
and for the opportunity to
work with the Xin Hua hospital
doctors and me. I was
grateful for the opportunity
to meet this young man in
person. Like all the adolescent
scoliosis patients that I
met, the teenagers and their
parents were zealous and
disciplined about proper
execution of spinal exercises. They were very inspiring to me!”
Left untreated, scoliosis can result in short- and long-term
physiological consequences. Some effects of scoliosis include
reduced life expectancy, stunted height, decreased pulmonary
function, headaches, digestive problems, hip, knee and leg
pain, and decreased self-esteem.
Dr. Dolly Garnecki is a 2007 Magna Cum Laude graduate of
Palmer College’s Florida Campus. She is a board-certified chiropractor
and an active member of the Unified Virginia Chiropractic
Association and the American Chiropractic Association.
For more information about scoliosis or Dr. Dolly Garnecki,
please visit www.scoliosisdoc.com.