Guest guest Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 If it helps you any, my scoliosis was noticed by the school physician when I was 5. My mother took me to our doctor and he said it was nothing. By 4th grade when I had my allergy tests repeated, the doctor told my mom how my back was deformed. I was finally taken to a specialist and put in a brace. I always wonder if I could have avoided this if my mom had taken me to a specialist earlier and gotten me braced. Peggy [ ] Re: Bracing -> > > ,> > I kind of doubt that there was much your mother could have done that > would have really changed the outcome of your progression. From time > to time I read a little about current bracing...and it doesn't seem > to me that I have read much that indicates it will do much even with > todays techniques except stabilize the milder curves...and then the > best results are with VERY compliant patients who wear them 23 hours > a day. I don't know what kind of teen you were....but I am pretty > sure I would not have been that kind of patient!> > So maybe the blessing in disguise was that you were spared all the > angst of that much mother-daughter nagging and bickering when you > very likely still would have had to have surgery? It may have been > neglect, but it may have worked in your favor.> > I am so sorry that you (and many of us) have had to endure the pain & > humiliation, indignity, and psychological trauma that was a part of > the early HR surgery.> > Take Care, Cam> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 My girls weren't living with me, they were with their dad, or I might have picked up on it sooner. Tori supposedly had a school physical in October. The doctor checked her for scoliosis and said she was fine. I noticed the curve in January when I was washing her back. I got her in immediately to a doctor and was eventually sent to Dr. Reeg within a week. At that time it was 40 degrees. I don't believe it went from a straight spine to 40 degrees in 3 months. The school physician obviously didn't check her very well. Peggy [ ] Re: Bracing -> > > ,> > I kind of doubt that there was much your mother could have done that > would have really changed the outcome of your progression. From time > to time I read a little about current bracing...and it doesn't seem > to me that I have read much that indicates it will do much even with > todays techniques except stabilize the milder curves...and then the > best results are with VERY compliant patients who wear them 23 hours > a day. I don't know what kind of teen you were....but I am pretty > sure I would not have been that kind of patient!> > So maybe the blessing in disguise was that you were spared all the > angst of that much mother-daughter nagging and bickering when you > very likely still would have had to have surgery? It may have been > neglect, but it may have worked in your favor.> > I am so sorry that you (and many of us) have had to endure the pain & > humiliation, indignity, and psychological trauma that was a part of > the early HR surgery.> > Take Care, Cam> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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