Re: Shriners in Portland OR

[Guest guest]

Grace is casted at Portland Shriner's. Dr. D is trained. They do call the Risser casts but I believe that is mostly for billing purposes since they bill insurance now. (Insurance doesn't have to pay and neither do you if they don't). The table is correct. Dr. D does not use Plaster of Paris (POP), but fiberglass. Hope that helps.Are you in Portland or will you just be traveling here? I live in Portland and I'm always open to meeting other Scoli parents Jane From: jmotley84 <jmotley84@...> infantile scoliosis treatment Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:35 PM Subject: Shriners in Portland OR

I got in contact today about Shriners doing the new Mehta casting method and they said they did that but its called a Rizor? I didnt know if that was right or not, but am happy to get into back into Shriners

[Guest guest]

Did they tell you it was a modified Rissor cast? If so, that is the same thing

as a Mehta cast.

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> Grace is casted at Portland Shriner's.  Dr. D is trained.  They do call the

Risser casts but I believe that is mostly for billing purposes since they bill

insurance now.  (Insurance doesn't have to pay and neither do you if they

don't).  The table is correct.  Dr. D does not use Plaster of Paris (POP), but

fiberglass.  Hope that helps.

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> Are you in Portland or will you just be traveling here?  I live in Portland

and I'm always open to meeting other Scoli parents

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> Jane

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> From: jmotley84 <jmotley84@...>

> infantile scoliosis treatment

> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:35 PM

> Subject: Shriners in Portland OR

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> I got in contact today about Shriners doing the new Mehta casting method and

they said they did that but its called a Rizor? I didnt know if that was right

or not, but am happy to get into back into Shriners

>

[Guest guest]

They probably use the term Risser for billing issues. An fyi to all new

CAST members: EDF (elongation, derotation, flexion) casting is simply an

improvement to the Risser technique. A Risser frame can elongate and

derotate, which is 2 dimensional correction. An edf cast applied on an

edf frame has the ability to maintain/correct the lumbar lordosis which

makes it 3 dimensional correction.

Hope this helps.

HRH

> I got in contact today about Shriners doing the new Mehta casting method

> and they said they did that but its called a Rizor? I didnt know if that

> was right or not, but am happy to get into back into Shriners

>

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