Hello Everyone -
I am not much of a poster on this forum but believe me when I say I have probably read every single post on the surgical (first time) portion of the forum and am very grateful to you all for the experiences you share. I hope I will at some point be able to share my experiences too and help someone else going through this.
I had my surgery in June and while my curves were literally identical and very well balanced before surgery (87 thoracic and 85 lumbar), they seem significantly different post op (37 thoracic and 18-21 lumbar). I know that my bending xrays showed my thoracic curve to be very stiff (i.e literally unchanged in the bending xrays) and my lumbar curve much more flexible probably because it started out as a compensatory curve. My concern however is that since the surgery I feel somewhat off and feel like one leg is longer than the other. Dr B suggested a shoe lift on my left leg which I have used since then but I still feel off. I have expressed my concern about not being balanced but he says I am balanced and went through a long explanation about the sagital and coronal planes and totally lost me with the explanation I must confess I do tend to get intimidated during my visits and even though I did not understand the explanation, I kinda took his word for it Its hard to argue when your surgeon has such a good reputation right ?
Now my question is this, is it possible to have such discrepancy between your two curves i.e the post op thoracic curve almost double the lumbar curve and be balanced ?? For a layman like me it doesn't make sense but then I don't have the medical perspective. I know there are few people on the forum whose post op curves were not exactly thesame and had such discrepancy and wanted to get their opinion on this. I am kind of giving my body time to adjust as Dr B said I am balanced and it would just take time for me to feel it but also would appreciate comments from anyone who had thesame concerns post op.
Thanks everyone and happy holidays !!!
I am not much of a poster on this forum but believe me when I say I have probably read every single post on the surgical (first time) portion of the forum and am very grateful to you all for the experiences you share. I hope I will at some point be able to share my experiences too and help someone else going through this.
I had my surgery in June and while my curves were literally identical and very well balanced before surgery (87 thoracic and 85 lumbar), they seem significantly different post op (37 thoracic and 18-21 lumbar). I know that my bending xrays showed my thoracic curve to be very stiff (i.e literally unchanged in the bending xrays) and my lumbar curve much more flexible probably because it started out as a compensatory curve. My concern however is that since the surgery I feel somewhat off and feel like one leg is longer than the other. Dr B suggested a shoe lift on my left leg which I have used since then but I still feel off. I have expressed my concern about not being balanced but he says I am balanced and went through a long explanation about the sagital and coronal planes and totally lost me with the explanation I must confess I do tend to get intimidated during my visits and even though I did not understand the explanation, I kinda took his word for it Its hard to argue when your surgeon has such a good reputation right ?
Now my question is this, is it possible to have such discrepancy between your two curves i.e the post op thoracic curve almost double the lumbar curve and be balanced ?? For a layman like me it doesn't make sense but then I don't have the medical perspective. I know there are few people on the forum whose post op curves were not exactly thesame and had such discrepancy and wanted to get their opinion on this. I am kind of giving my body time to adjust as Dr B said I am balanced and it would just take time for me to feel it but also would appreciate comments from anyone who had thesame concerns post op.
Thanks everyone and happy holidays !!!
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