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  • A lil' piece of history ...

    Do *not* ask me why I still even had this, but here's the scoli guide I was given by my ortho (specifically for the Boston brace), circa 1978 ...

    Regards,
    Pam
    Last edited by txmarinemom; 01-30-2008, 11:11 AM.
    Fusion is NOT the end of the world.
    AIDS Walk Houston 2008 5K @ 33 days post op!


    41, dx'd JIS & Boston braced @ 10
    Pre-op ±53°, Post-op < 20°
    Fused 2/5/08, T4-L1 ... Darrell S. Hanson, Houston


    VIEW MY X-RAYS
    EMAIL ME

  • #2
    Tried, but gave up...

    How long is it? I have dial-up (live in the boonies and nothing else is available...) and I started to download it but it looked like it might take hours. Not that I don't have plenty of time-I just wasn't sure if it was worth having my line tied up for that long. Let me know if it is... I'm always ready for a good "read."
    71 and plugging along... but having some problems
    2007 52° w/ severe lumbar stenosis & L2L3 lateral listhesis (side shift)
    5/4/07 posterior fusion T2-L4 w/ laminectomies and osteotomies @L2L3, L3L4
    Dr. Kim Hammerberg, Rush Univ. Medical Center in Chicago

    Corrected to 15°
    CMT (type 2) DX in 2014, progressing
    10/2018 x-rays - spondylolisthesis at L4/L5 - Dr. DeWald is monitoring

    Click to view my pics: pics of scoli x-rays digital x-rays, and pics of me

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    • #3
      Ooooooh ... dial-up. I'll see if I can scale it down. It's full of scanned images, and I forget not everyone has access to broadband!

      Back in a flash ;-)

      Regards,
      Pam
      Fusion is NOT the end of the world.
      AIDS Walk Houston 2008 5K @ 33 days post op!


      41, dx'd JIS & Boston braced @ 10
      Pre-op ±53°, Post-op < 20°
      Fused 2/5/08, T4-L1 ... Darrell S. Hanson, Houston


      VIEW MY X-RAYS
      EMAIL ME

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      • #4
        Okay ... scaled down ...

        Let me know if you're still having issues with it Susie*Bee, and I'll find a may to compress further!

        Pam
        Fusion is NOT the end of the world.
        AIDS Walk Houston 2008 5K @ 33 days post op!


        41, dx'd JIS & Boston braced @ 10
        Pre-op ±53°, Post-op < 20°
        Fused 2/5/08, T4-L1 ... Darrell S. Hanson, Houston


        VIEW MY X-RAYS
        EMAIL ME

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        • #5
          I guess that was "top of the line" treatment back then? Thank God for our medical advancements. Thanks for that blast from the past, Pam!
          Lisa age 47
          T curve 69 degrees
          L curve 40 degrees more or less - compensatory
          fused to from T-3 to sacrum
          anterior and posterior surgeries completed June 1, 2007
          pushing hard in recovery !!

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          • #6
            Thanks, Pam!

            It's downloading now... will only take 6 minutes total, it looks like, so that's really good.
            71 and plugging along... but having some problems
            2007 52° w/ severe lumbar stenosis & L2L3 lateral listhesis (side shift)
            5/4/07 posterior fusion T2-L4 w/ laminectomies and osteotomies @L2L3, L3L4
            Dr. Kim Hammerberg, Rush Univ. Medical Center in Chicago

            Corrected to 15°
            CMT (type 2) DX in 2014, progressing
            10/2018 x-rays - spondylolisthesis at L4/L5 - Dr. DeWald is monitoring

            Click to view my pics: pics of scoli x-rays digital x-rays, and pics of me

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            • #7
              Originally posted by crepehanger
              I guess that was "top of the line" treatment back then? Thank God for our medical advancements. Thanks for that blast from the past, Pam!
              Yep, Lisa ... as far as we still have to go, we've made leaps and bounds.

              I wonder how much of "The Guide" still applies to Boston brace wearers: I just remember how awful the "skin toughening" process was - and HOW important it was to keep that undershirt from bunching!

              Regards,
              Pam
              Fusion is NOT the end of the world.
              AIDS Walk Houston 2008 5K @ 33 days post op!


              41, dx'd JIS & Boston braced @ 10
              Pre-op ±53°, Post-op < 20°
              Fused 2/5/08, T4-L1 ... Darrell S. Hanson, Houston


              VIEW MY X-RAYS
              EMAIL ME

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              • #8
                Memories, memories

                This brings back lots of memories. I had a boston brace w/milwau. top bars for several years. Lots of memories of my father with the bottle of rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball. He didn't know how fast I was! That alcohol burned. I had a scar for years and years where a pad on the inside burned and I stuck things down my brace and scratched!! I don't think we ever got anything in writing about the brace. I sure hoped some things have changed!!

                Mary
                T-64
                L-40
                Mary
                T-64
                L-40
                Wore Milwaulkee brace from 6th grade until 11th grade. Surgery was scheduled Oct. 1983, did not go through with it.

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