I’ve posted here several times and again thank everyone for their support.
Here are my basic stats before I go ahead with my question:
Male, 17 (just turned)
Thoracic Curve at 50
Kyphosis (moderate curve)
Currently Wearing Brace
Live in Canada (Toronto)
*Wearing brace for about 4 yrs; curved reduced by 20 degrees (from 70 to 50)
In any event, I just spoke to my ortho and she said that she’s actually leaning toward the NON-surgical route. I have absolutely no pain, rib hump is there but it is not killing me and you can barely see anything wrong with me; no limitations whatsoever.
She said that I will be finishing brace treatment sometime this year and that in my case, she isn’t too enthusiastic about the surgery since it WAS reduced from 70 and since I am not in pain, she said that she doesn’t think that surgery would be a good idea for me.
We talked a little about minimally invasive techniques (surprisingly they do this in Canada!) but because of the kyphosis there would be much more than 3 small scars, so that wouldn’t be a good idea for me – I’m not exactly sure why.
Long story short, she said that surgery is a bitch; complications are very rare but when it does happen you are basically SCREWED! You do NOT want to have nerve damage or a broken rod in your spine!
From what I understand, if she was going to be doing the surgery…she would be going to maximum L1…I don’t know how much that would limit me, but I do know that she said that I would be able to do EVERYTHING that I am right now.
Just on another note, I though this was very weird lol --- the ex-ray person was an asian chick, all 3 secretaries at the clinic upstairs, the doctor itself, the brace specialist AND the physiotherapist! JEEZ lol!
Here are my basic stats before I go ahead with my question:
Male, 17 (just turned)
Thoracic Curve at 50
Kyphosis (moderate curve)
Currently Wearing Brace
Live in Canada (Toronto)
*Wearing brace for about 4 yrs; curved reduced by 20 degrees (from 70 to 50)
In any event, I just spoke to my ortho and she said that she’s actually leaning toward the NON-surgical route. I have absolutely no pain, rib hump is there but it is not killing me and you can barely see anything wrong with me; no limitations whatsoever.
She said that I will be finishing brace treatment sometime this year and that in my case, she isn’t too enthusiastic about the surgery since it WAS reduced from 70 and since I am not in pain, she said that she doesn’t think that surgery would be a good idea for me.
We talked a little about minimally invasive techniques (surprisingly they do this in Canada!) but because of the kyphosis there would be much more than 3 small scars, so that wouldn’t be a good idea for me – I’m not exactly sure why.
Long story short, she said that surgery is a bitch; complications are very rare but when it does happen you are basically SCREWED! You do NOT want to have nerve damage or a broken rod in your spine!
From what I understand, if she was going to be doing the surgery…she would be going to maximum L1…I don’t know how much that would limit me, but I do know that she said that I would be able to do EVERYTHING that I am right now.
Just on another note, I though this was very weird lol --- the ex-ray person was an asian chick, all 3 secretaries at the clinic upstairs, the doctor itself, the brace specialist AND the physiotherapist! JEEZ lol!
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