For those of us out there with left thoracic curves, I ran across this article that I thought was interesting. Since the left thoracic curve is considered "rare" I thought I would look it up and this is what I found:
http://www.conquerchiari.org/subs%20...rve%201-10.asp
I know it is a small sample size, but something worth investigating.
I was watching one of those real life medical shows awhile back (don't remember which one) where a young girl had terrible headaches and some other symptoms that I don't remember and the docs pretty much gave up on her. Her mom did a bunch of research on the internet and found that her daughter's symptoms matched that of a Chiari Malformation. She took her to a specialist and low and behold that's what it was. They fixed it and the girl recovered. I wasn't relating to the show since no mention of scoliosis was made, but thinking back, none of the docs thought to even look for that on this girl.
Here is some more information about Chiari Malformations:
http://www.bing.com/health/article/m...i+malformation
I looked at my old MRI just to see, since this is something easily missed if they aren't looking for it. I couldn't tell for sure. I've been put through several nerve conduction studies, talked to my eye doctor about it, scoli docs, headache docs, neurologists and you name it. But they were all independent in their fields and no one to look at the big picture. It may not be the case, since my curve is relatively small as compared to the group that had neurological problems. But I have, and have had, many of the symptoms for a long time (since I was a teen). It may all come to nothing, but I think it's worth asking.
http://www.conquerchiari.org/subs%20...rve%201-10.asp
I know it is a small sample size, but something worth investigating.
I was watching one of those real life medical shows awhile back (don't remember which one) where a young girl had terrible headaches and some other symptoms that I don't remember and the docs pretty much gave up on her. Her mom did a bunch of research on the internet and found that her daughter's symptoms matched that of a Chiari Malformation. She took her to a specialist and low and behold that's what it was. They fixed it and the girl recovered. I wasn't relating to the show since no mention of scoliosis was made, but thinking back, none of the docs thought to even look for that on this girl.
Here is some more information about Chiari Malformations:
http://www.bing.com/health/article/m...i+malformation
I looked at my old MRI just to see, since this is something easily missed if they aren't looking for it. I couldn't tell for sure. I've been put through several nerve conduction studies, talked to my eye doctor about it, scoli docs, headache docs, neurologists and you name it. But they were all independent in their fields and no one to look at the big picture. It may not be the case, since my curve is relatively small as compared to the group that had neurological problems. But I have, and have had, many of the symptoms for a long time (since I was a teen). It may all come to nothing, but I think it's worth asking.
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