Extremely important question on scoliosis? plz answer?

Hello. I'm an orthopedic physical therapist and I primarily treat the spine so I see a fair share of scoliosis. To tell you the truth, tons of people have minor scoliosis and I'm usually the first one tell them when I'm looking at their spine. To answer your question, don't be scared about the habits you described. As long as you don't always sit on the same side every single time and hang out their for hours and as long as you don't lay down on your side all the time then you shouldn't worry about this causing your scoliosis to get worse. Having said that, poor posture and letting your body, especially your trunk/core muscles get weak, will make it get worse (over a long period of time...I'm not talking like in 1 month, more like many years). So, if you usually sit/stand with good posture and stay fit, then you should be good. To work your core though, don't just do sit ups though; that works your abdominal muscles but that's just part of core. You need to work the back muscles too as well as the and scapula muscles - most people have a lot of weakness here. Examples of exercises include pullups like you're doing and also rows (shoulder blade squeezes with resistance), bridges, leg and arm lifts lying on your stomach. Now, these exercises are great and if you're healthy and have no orthopedic problems then you'll probably be ok but, if you do them wrongly or you have something else going on, they may cause pain which they shouldn't. So my best recommendation is to go see your local friendly orthopedic physical therapist for help. They'll be able to test your muscles more comprehensively and tell you what muscles are weak (possibly due to scoliosis) and can help set you up with the best exercise plan. Hope this helps.