My dr. jumped right into the procedure info. and said it would be the kind where its the incision is not the length of the spine but rather in the front and around to the back. hesaid i would give my own blood before hand, and that there was a small risk of parpalegic but this is monitored the entire time by this electrical thing. He said surgery usually takes about 5 hrs. and hospital is about a week. No work for 2-4 months, PT for 3 months after that. And he said i would not require a brace after. Pain managment would be directly inserted ( i guess a cath.) into spine and dispenced. Mind you, this was all in a days visit. I hadn't even thought about my scloiosis in like 10 yrs. This was my first with the dr. and he was already desribing surgery. Freaked me out. Nice they had an x-ray thing onsite though.
Stephanie
Stephanie
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