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Having new comfortable running shoes is a dream.....they actually stimulate us to go walking! Thanks for reminding me as I need to go shoe shopping...

I am fused T4 to sacrum and my experience has been better than I expected. I have some balance issues, but nothing that I cannot manage. I can bend...

Maybe someone here will have a suggestion but I have never heard of particular shoes helping with back pain other than not wearing high heels. Where...

Liz, You have gone a really really long time without seeing a scoliosis surgeon.....(I thought I was bad) A lot of degeneration can happen during...

Here is a list of causes of pain after bone harvesting from the ilium for spine surgery... ...

Any spine surgeon is going to be familiar with treating this condition since it is relatively common among patients who had bone harvested from the...

Sorry. I mean do you have an x-ray showing a bone spur? Could it be this person was mistaken? People misunderstand their surgeons all the...

Thanks for your reply Ed. I may do that - just go in with my complaint and see what they say...actually, to my recollection, when I was having the...

Hi Sharon, I said "or something like that" - it could be rubbing up against a nerve, tendon, tissue of some kind, I don't know what it is rubbing up...

Hi Linda, I don't know how that could be possible that the patient can't tell which side of the Iliac Crest the bone graft was taken if they are...

Jay, You know I picked Rod Stewart as a user name because someone had already picked Jose Cuervo.....It's important to have a good username, I think...

Rod! It's good to check in again and see some of the old names. The neck revision has worked wonders. I'm so glad I had it done, it made this...

Unless you hit your thumb with a hammer driving a nail, second guessing really is fruitless. Going in and being evaluated is important. Its...

Years ago I had a ruptured ectopic and bled into my belly. Most of the time during recovery in the hospital, I complained that I thought I broke my...

Jay, Good to hear from you! Glad to hear that the neck revision worked out well. Your the only person I know with a strut graft. This was a...

Liz, You know many years ago, I had a lot of trouble finding a hairdresser that would do a purple mohawk. (It was Halloween, and it was a college...

Hi Liz, Here is the human skeleton. There is no bone anywhere near the iliac crest to be rubbing against. ...

I think you'll find that many scoliosis surgeons will tell you that even patients who have iliac crest area pain after bone graft surgery, can't...

https://www.healio.com/orthopedics/spine/news/online/%7B2c819597-d4c3-4d81-9713-2cf18808f89b%7D/serial-casting-had-negative-effect-on-hrqol-of-patient...

Hi Ed, You are WAY to kind...I did have my surgery many years ago, like many others in the group, but I am by no means an expert at all on it...in...

Thank for you this article Sharon! Good to know! Warmly, Liz

Hi Sharon, Thank you so much for the article!! I accidentally responded to Linda as opposed to you so am copying my response here for you. Also...

Hi Linda, Thank you so much for the article. I looked at it briefly and apparently the study was done on patients who did NOT experience pain in...

Brilliant. Makes total sense.

Hi Ginger... Having worked with spine surgeons for many years, and witnessed countless appointments, I cannot stress strongly enough that I feel...