Scoliosis and Spinal Conditions

Lise Stolze is an advanced scoliosis physical therapist and educator for SSOL-Schroth. She is certified through the Barcelona Scoliosis Physical Therapy School (BSPTS C2) and certified in the Scientific Exercise Approach to Scoliosis SEAS 2 . She is an active member of the International Society on Scoliosis Orthopoedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT).

Lise earned her master’s degree in physical therapy in 1992 and her doctor of science degree (DSc) in orthopedics in 2011 through the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. In 2012 her research on low back pain and Pilates was published in the Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy and she became an affiliate faculty member for the Regis University Physical Therapy program in Denver Colorado.

With a strong passion for exercise and movement, Lise became a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) in 1994 through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). She trained with Fletcher Pilates and Polestar Pilates and eventually became an educator for Polestar in 2001. She is certified through the National Pilates Certification Program. She trained and was certified in the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® in 1995, and is a registered yoga teacher through the Yoga Teacher Alliance . Lise currently serves on the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) Research Committee.

Understanding the need for fitness professionals to be knowledgeable in coaching clients with scoliosis, Lise and Hagit Berdishevsky co-founded the course: Pilates Adaptations for People with Scoliosis Supporting the Principles of the Schroth Method and have presented this course internationally through Polestar Pilates. This course has evolved in a new comprehensive online course called: Scoliosis and Spinal Conditions Pilates Master Course.

Lise has presented nationally at the PMA annual conference, the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting, and at Pilates on Tour. She has presented internationally with SOSORT and at the 10th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back & Pelvic Girdle Pain. Lise owns Stolze Therapies: Scoliosis, Spine and Movement Arts in Denver Colorado. This is also a teaching facility, and home to the Denver branch of SSOL Schroth scoliosis physical therapy certification.

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Hagit Berdishevsky, PT, DPT, Schroth therapist, co-founder and teacher for Scoliosis and Spine Online Learning (SSOL), BSPTS-Concept by Rigo therapist , Scientific Exercise Approach to Scoliosis (SEAS) therapist, and McKenzie (MDT) therapist is Chair of the Education Committee of the International Society on Scoliosis Orthopoedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT), owner of the Scoliosis and Spine Physical Therapy Clinic in New York City (also known as SchrothNYC) and the יציבה טובה center in Israel. She specializes in scoliosis and spine rehabilitation for non-operative, pre-operative and post-operative patients of all ages.

Dr. Berdishevsky graduated in 1998 from the Wingate Institute’s Physical Education and Sports Science Program in Israel with a specialty in Postural Defects Cultivation. She received her Master’s degree in physical therapy from Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, in 2005, and her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from St. Augustine University (Florida) in 2013, specializing in sports rehabilitation. In 2009 Dr. Berdishevsky became certified in Mechanical Diagnosis and Treatment (MDT) by the McKenzie Institute. She was certified as a Schroth scoliosis therapist by the Asklepios Katherina-Schroth Clinic in Germany in 2009 and as a Barcelona Scoliosis Physical Therapy School (BSPTS) therapist in Spain in 2011.

Dr. Berdishevsky worked for 10 years at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) as an Advanced Clinician and, as the first certified Schroth therapist in New York City, introduced the practice to HSS. She then moved to Columbia University Medical Center to institute and develop a Schroth clinic and served as Co-Director of the Nonoperative Care for Spine and Scoliosis. At the same time she developed her private clinic Scoliosis and Spine Physical Therapy Clinic in New York City (also known as SchrothNYC) and taught extensively around the world. She served as an educator of BSPTS-Concept by Rigo from 2013 to 2020, and co-developed and taught Pilates Adaptation for People with Scoliosis as well as Integrated Wisdom: Yoga Adaptation for People with Scoliosis since 2016.

In 2017 Dr. Berdishevsky co-founded Scoliosis and Spine Online Learning (SSOL), an online learning platform devoted to educating professionals in the scoliosis community. SSOL has a current reach of 73 countries and provides up to date evidence based educations by the world’s foremost experts in the field of scoliosis and spinal conditions.

Dr. Berdishevsky regularly lectures on the topics of scoliosis, radiology, osteoporosis and all spine related topics at conferences and to community groups. Based both in New York City and Israel, she teaches throughout the United States and internationally.