Theresa's Surgery Update

[Theresa]

Hi all. This is Theresa's daughter, Jennifer. Her surgery went well. She had quite a bit of blood loss, but is doing great now. Yesterday was her first day of walking around and she is doing wonderfully. She is also standing up very straight. This morning her doctor said she should be moving to Rehab tomorrow and should be able to head back home sometime between Monday and Wednesday of next week. I will let her know of all of your well wishes.

Jennifer

[littlemiss]

I am happy to hear that Theresa's surgery went well. Give her my regards.

Littlemiss

[gscarpato]

Hi Theresa, I hope your feeling better. I wanted to ask you about spine rotation. You are the first person I have seen to ever mention it. My daughthers doctor calls it trunk rotation.He didnt really explain. Her 1st surgery was in 2000 and a revision in 2004. Since then the spine rotation looks much worse and I fear she is heading for a 3rd surgery. Can they fix spine rotation or stop it from getting worse. Any info you have would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Theresa]

Yes, they can fix spine rotation when they do the surgery. I'm not sure but I believe most of the times it is done with osteotomies (http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article858.html) or thoraplasty. During my first surgery they were able to correct some of the rotation without doing an osteotomy. I believe alot of people have the rotation, that is usually why your ribs are prominent on one side or the other. For me, they were very prominent on the left side in the front and the back side on the right. This is what we refer to as the "hump".