Hi-
I had my 4 week post-op visit yesterday with Dr. Boachie. Everything went really well. He took x-rays of my neck since the past 2 weeks I couldn't hold it up straight and it basically just rests on my chin. The x-rays looked fine, no fractures or anything. He prescribed me a neck brace and PT to work on my neck. He said it was an extreme case about what was going on with my neck. It usually doesn't happen after surgery. I have had EXTREME spasms going into my left shoulder and left side of my neck ever since a week post-op, so he thinks what is going on with the neck is related to the spasms. The neck brace feels soooo good when it's on (even though it looks so ugly). My 3 year old looks at me and she asks me to take it off. The brace even scares her!
Anyway, Dr. Boachie gave me my spinal corrections, which I thought would have been a little lower in curvature. My thoracic spine pre surgery was 55 degrees and was brought down to 25 degrees, and my lumbar curve was 58 degrees pre surgery and was brought down to 27 degrees. I was just looking at other people's corrections on the forum and wondering why there curvatures were alot higher than mine before surgery and are now lower than mine post surgery. I mean I saw someone who had a 70 degree curve go down to 12 degrees! I am only 31 years old, had great bone density results, and had good bending x-rays which showed I wasn't too rigid and am very flexible. I'm thinking that the different methods give different type of corrections. I had posterior-only surgery. Do the people that have A/P surgery have better corrections post surgery? I'm not complaining about the correction I got with my spine, just wondering what makes some people have such low corrections after surgery.
Thanks!
JenM
I had my 4 week post-op visit yesterday with Dr. Boachie. Everything went really well. He took x-rays of my neck since the past 2 weeks I couldn't hold it up straight and it basically just rests on my chin. The x-rays looked fine, no fractures or anything. He prescribed me a neck brace and PT to work on my neck. He said it was an extreme case about what was going on with my neck. It usually doesn't happen after surgery. I have had EXTREME spasms going into my left shoulder and left side of my neck ever since a week post-op, so he thinks what is going on with the neck is related to the spasms. The neck brace feels soooo good when it's on (even though it looks so ugly). My 3 year old looks at me and she asks me to take it off. The brace even scares her!
Anyway, Dr. Boachie gave me my spinal corrections, which I thought would have been a little lower in curvature. My thoracic spine pre surgery was 55 degrees and was brought down to 25 degrees, and my lumbar curve was 58 degrees pre surgery and was brought down to 27 degrees. I was just looking at other people's corrections on the forum and wondering why there curvatures were alot higher than mine before surgery and are now lower than mine post surgery. I mean I saw someone who had a 70 degree curve go down to 12 degrees! I am only 31 years old, had great bone density results, and had good bending x-rays which showed I wasn't too rigid and am very flexible. I'm thinking that the different methods give different type of corrections. I had posterior-only surgery. Do the people that have A/P surgery have better corrections post surgery? I'm not complaining about the correction I got with my spine, just wondering what makes some people have such low corrections after surgery.
Thanks!
JenM
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