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    Hey everyone I know your probly thinking this has nothing to do with scoliosis or any other spine problem. I have a question about something it making me irritated has ony had broken ribs after their scoliosis surgery.
    Kara
    25
    Brace 4-15-05-5-25-06
    Posterior Spinal Fusion 3-10-10
    T4-L2
    Before 50T
    After 20T

  • #2
    Hi Kara,

    Does the person who has broken ribs have scoliosis?

    Are you asking why people break ribs?

    Best regards,

    Sharon
    Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis

    No island of sanity.

    Question: What do you call alternative medicine that works?
    Answer: Medicine


    "We are all African."

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    • #3
      I actual asking because, yesterday I went to the hospital here with supecetted pneumonia because I been sick for like over a month. They did a chest X-Ray. I don't have pneumonia thank god. I have bronitis and a sinus infection. But in the X-rays I just a bit confused There is mild deformity of the right posterior seventh and eighth ribs from old, healed fractures.
      Kara
      25
      Brace 4-15-05-5-25-06
      Posterior Spinal Fusion 3-10-10
      T4-L2
      Before 50T
      After 20T

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      • #4
        Well it sounds like you broke some ribs at some point.
        Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis

        No island of sanity.

        Question: What do you call alternative medicine that works?
        Answer: Medicine


        "We are all African."

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        • #5
          That the thing I also had a throcoplasty where my surgeon at the time did my surgery
          Kara
          25
          Brace 4-15-05-5-25-06
          Posterior Spinal Fusion 3-10-10
          T4-L2
          Before 50T
          After 20T

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          • #6
            Maybe you can ask the doctor who read your xray if the healed ribs are really the result of rib removal.
            Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis

            No island of sanity.

            Question: What do you call alternative medicine that works?
            Answer: Medicine


            "We are all African."

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            • #7
              Kara...

              I'm almost positive that your "broken" ribs were actually the ones that were cut to do your thoracoplasty.

              --Linda
              Never argue with an idiot. They always drag you down to their level, and then they beat you with experience. --Twain
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              Surgery 2/10/93 A/P fusion T4-L3
              Surgery 1/20/11 A/P fusion L2-sacrum w/pelvic fixation

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              • #8
                Kara,
                I fell and broke a rib and have not had surgery. I'm pretty sure you'd know if you had a previous injury. I'm thinking what Linda said is most likely the cause. Ask your doctor. Do your ribs hurt or was it just an incidental finding on your x-ray?

                Today at my appointment I asked my doctor if broken bones can hurt for life. He said in some people, yes. I asked him because my rib still hurts at times and I broke it seven months ago! It is my seventh rib on the left side and just a little toward the front. It's right where my bra goes around. Sometimes I can't wear a regular bra or anything that is tight around there. But, then again my "new" rib hump hurts, too, just not as bad. My new rib hump goes out the side and not out the back like my first hump. I think it's the muscles and other tissue stretching that hurts. The top (first) one doesn't hurt unless I'm sitting in a hard high back chair and lean on it. Getting off topic, sorry.

                If yours doesn't hurt, your doctor did a mighty fine job! There's no way to set a rib unless you are in there. I'm not sure what they do with the procedure you had done. Is it to reduce your rib hump?

                Wishing you all the best. Get better!
                Rohrer01
                Be happy!
                We don't know what tomorrow brings,
                but we are alive today!

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                • #9
                  Kara,
                  Yes I have broken three ribs since my surgery
                  'Melissa
                  Melissa

                  Fused from C2 - sacrum 7/2011

                  April 21, 2020- another broken rod surgery

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                  • #10
                    I'll agree with Linda.

                    The healed cut rib edges would look not really different than a fracture in terms of how it appears on xray though a bit 'cleaner'. The radiology would have had to been notified of the throcoplasty for the radiologist to know. They are more likely to see a healed rib fracture vs. a healed throcoplasty.
                    Last edited by green m&m; 03-26-2016, 09:48 PM.
                    30 something y.o.

                    2003 - T45, L???
                    2005 - T50, L31
                    bunch of measurements between...

                    2011 - T60, L32
                    2013 - T68, L?

                    Posterior Fusion Sept 2014 -- T3 - L3
                    Post - op curve ~35


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