
I live in turin (north of italy), have a 60° sheuermann kyphosis (with compensatory lumbar lordosis and forward-pointing head).
I know it's not too much, but It has been creating a lot problems with my life in general and education specifically, in the sense that i can't study properly because of back and neck pain (that most of the times turns into headaches). I also would want to go to meditations retreats, but i currently can't because i can't manage to sit up straight and still for more than a hour or so, while that kind of routine requires several hours of that for several days. Studying requires a similar feat. The pain is in the form of a constant nausea/bother, that peaks into actual pain by afternoon and there's no way I can study in this condition (actually, it's pushing me to the brink of insanity...).
The health care in italy is somewhat poor and I thought about travelling to germany for a month or so in order to apply to train with the schroth method and get a good brace i can use to study with and go to retreats. This is quite urgent because school starts again in late september, it will involve a lot of classes, labs, and studying for most of the day and i would like to begin in a good shape.
I came here to ask because I've read a post in another forum (http://www.scoliosis-support.org/showthread.php?t=6970) by Toni, that looked extremely interesting. So what I'd do is to get to Stuttgart (for example) to enroll for the schrot training (here: http://www.skoliose.tv/) and ask the Rahmouni-clinic if I can buy a brace.
May I ask, do you think this is possible? Not residing in Germany, do you think I would be entitled to have any reduction of the costs? I shall inform myself whether the Italian health care would cover part of the costs too...
Thank you very much... sorry for the intrusion and the requests.
Giulio