Lucas' most recent appointment in Boston

January 15, 2008

hi everyone,

a little update from us. we decided to make contact with a local ortho again

just in case we ever need someone close. i was interested in dr. hresko at

children's in boston ever since i heard that he has referred patients to dr.

sanders and was even interested in doing casting but was never able to get that

up and running for unknown reasons. more recently i read that he was the first

ortho in boston to perform the vertebral stapling procedure at children's.

previously it was only done in philly.

what a nice man. definitely different from our other experience at children's

here. basically we went over lucas' history, and he looked through his x-rays

from montreal from the last year and a half. no new x-rays were taken.

dr. hresko said that he really likes the spinecor brace and has been following

the papers and developments of it. they used to use it at children's for ais

cases, but had some difficulty with compliance due to the crotch straps in the

teen age girls. i guess they didn't have as good as results as dr. rivard's

group. he mentioned how good lucas looks on x-ray and just looking at his back.

he thought that if we could continue with the spinecor for as long as possible

-- i guess meaning either until it doesn't hold the curve if does progress or as

long as lucas tolerates it, then he thought that would be wonderful.

i must say that i thought it was very interesting that he didn't " push "

stapling. i guess that i thought he might leave that door open as an option to

us now, but on the contrary, even when we asked about it, he did not really

elaborate or want to discuss it in detail.

anyway, i guess we will stay the course. my husband came out of the appt. quite

relieved to hear from another ortho that lucas is doing well.

thanks for listening!

deshea

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mom to lucas (6 yrs old) and ruby (3 yrs old and a handful!)

north of boston, ma

lucas was diagnosed with infantile scoliosis at 18 mos 68o/45o

spinal detethering due to a tight/fatty filum at 22 mos

tlso and charleston brace from 18 mos to 2 1/2 yrs old at children's boston, ma

serial plaster casting from 2 1/2 until 4 1/2 yrs old at shriners in erie, pa

now in a spinecor brace at 24o/18o from montreal.

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