I spent my youth reading in bed while my friends played sports and enjoyed themselves. The worst day of my life was when I first felt pain in my spine. I was sixteen, and I could not understand what was happening. I had no idea that I was developing damned scoliosis.

My parents told me it was just pain and I should not worry. But more painful episodes followed, many of them, and the pain grew stronger. I lived in constant pain, so at eighteen I had to see an orthopaedist. After checking my back, he pronounced my death sentence: ‘Scoliosis with a 30-degree spinal deviation. Things look bad for you, son!’ My life was over, although I realised that a little later, when my university friends started going to the swimming pool and gym to train their bodies. As though scoliosis were not enough, my spine began twisting by itself, like an instrument of medieval torture. So my saga did not end there: not only had my youth been ruined, but now a frightening prospect awaited me — a future life of pain.

During that period I met Moreno, and together we decided to try something new, beyond the conventional knowledge of the scientific world (this was the biomechanical Starecta method created by Moreno Conte, based on a particular change in bite height).

Valerio’s cranial tilt at the beginning of treatment

At first we decided to do this only for ourselves, but then we realised we could do it for others like us as well. After many unsuccessful attempts, I remember marvelling at Moreno’s intuition: it was his intuition that made an incredible scientific discovery.

progress after two years of using the method

It was intuition that made us wake up at night and investigate that damned leverage effect in the mouth, which nobody else could see, while we could see its full potential. It was a lever that could restore bodily symmetry — and it proved to be more than a theory.

I adore tango. People look at me in amazement and ask what the secret of my success is. They wonder how I went from being a complete weakling, unable to take even a few steps, to looking as though I had come out of a Viennese dance school. Straightening my back with Starecta brought about a literal Copernican revolution in my body: it became more flexible, my centre of gravity became lower, my bodily balance improved, my breathing became deeper and my diaphragm relaxed… Valerio Quatrano.

Moreno Conte’s book (Italy), ‘How I Straightened My Spine’, is here.
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Russian translation
The original article is on www.starecta.com