Assuming I end up fused nearly from top to bottom, how is the end result different from wearing a Milwaukee brace? I keep reading about all these problems putting on socks and shoes,etc., and yet I did all these things and tons more when I was a young girl and braced 24 hours a day. And in the brace I had no ability to bend my neck, either, whereas I will have that after surgery, at least. On the other hand, I'm wondering if the brace didn't allow some motion at the sacrum that I won't have if I'm fused to the sacrum with surgery. Is this correct? I certainly remember the brace went nearly down to my hip joint with that awful molded leather and metal frame, and I don't know how it could have allowed motion at L5 to S1, but maybe it did?
I have excellent flexibility in my hips, which I think is due to the many years of bracing in childhood, so will this help me?
I did all kinds of things in that brace: played tennis, ice skated, rode bikes and skate boards, climbed and hiked and played...will being mostly fused be so different? I'm trying to get a good idea of what I will be able to do, once I'm healed, and what life will be like from there on.
I have excellent flexibility in my hips, which I think is due to the many years of bracing in childhood, so will this help me?
I did all kinds of things in that brace: played tennis, ice skated, rode bikes and skate boards, climbed and hiked and played...will being mostly fused be so different? I'm trying to get a good idea of what I will be able to do, once I'm healed, and what life will be like from there on.
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