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Here in Serbia we have a hospital which deals with orthopedic issues only. It includes "A Spinal Centre" where different surgeries are performed to address different spinal problems. There I was in hospital being prepared for a surgery 18 years ago and didtn't have it. 18 years later I go there again interested in the state of my scoliosis. The doctor (the same as 18 years before) didn't even send me for an x-rays and said I should undergo surgery. After me insisting on making some x-rays, he sends me to do them. He took a look at them and said he "thought" the curves are the same as 18 years before and if I decided to have a surgery to come some other day to make some "corrective" x-rays.
I wasn't satisfied with this at all. Not that I expected him to tell me everything was OK, that my spine fine, but to pay some more attention to a patient as a person (the three of us, patients, are in the office at the same time, without our clothes from the waist up, he doesn't talk to the patient but to his assistant nurse who writes what he dictates to her
) I've put myself to the list of the waiting surgery patients!
Just to say that there, in that hopsital, patient do not get up for walking untill 6th or 7th day after surgery and do not go home until 21st day after being admitted to the hospital.
Accidentally I came across a women from my town, who has suffered from scoliosis since her childhood, too. But her original diagnosis is hemivertebrae, then scoliosis, and some fracture of the vertebrae.She had been to the hopsital where I was the first time, spent 15 days there, and they sent her home without any treatment.
she found another dcotor, in anopther hopsital. he's a neurosurgeon and a spinal surgeon. having examined her x-rays and MRI, he momentarily came to conclusion what should be done! i saw that docotr and he'swaiting my x-rays after the 5th january. In the other hsopital the patients are home 5th of surgery, they are up for a walk 2nd of surgery! I like this a lot!
But I'm not sure what guidelines to follow to choose the right surgeon?
The first one, an orthopedist, performs scoliosis surgeries mostly on children and teenagers while he also performs other spinal surgeries on adults.
The second, a neurosurgeon and a spinal surgeon, mostly performs surgeries on adults. I don't know how many scoliosis surgeries he has performed.
So, I don't know who should I turn to? it 's even more difficult to make a decision because of the the different approaches to the treatment of scoliosis and postoperative recovery.....and both of the surgeons are the most reputed ones in my country!
Any help is more than welcome!!!!
I wasn't satisfied with this at all. Not that I expected him to tell me everything was OK, that my spine fine, but to pay some more attention to a patient as a person (the three of us, patients, are in the office at the same time, without our clothes from the waist up, he doesn't talk to the patient but to his assistant nurse who writes what he dictates to her
) I've put myself to the list of the waiting surgery patients!Just to say that there, in that hopsital, patient do not get up for walking untill 6th or 7th day after surgery and do not go home until 21st day after being admitted to the hospital.
Accidentally I came across a women from my town, who has suffered from scoliosis since her childhood, too. But her original diagnosis is hemivertebrae, then scoliosis, and some fracture of the vertebrae.She had been to the hopsital where I was the first time, spent 15 days there, and they sent her home without any treatment.
she found another dcotor, in anopther hopsital. he's a neurosurgeon and a spinal surgeon. having examined her x-rays and MRI, he momentarily came to conclusion what should be done! i saw that docotr and he'swaiting my x-rays after the 5th january. In the other hsopital the patients are home 5th of surgery, they are up for a walk 2nd of surgery! I like this a lot!
But I'm not sure what guidelines to follow to choose the right surgeon?
The first one, an orthopedist, performs scoliosis surgeries mostly on children and teenagers while he also performs other spinal surgeries on adults.
The second, a neurosurgeon and a spinal surgeon, mostly performs surgeries on adults. I don't know how many scoliosis surgeries he has performed.
So, I don't know who should I turn to? it 's even more difficult to make a decision because of the the different approaches to the treatment of scoliosis and postoperative recovery.....and both of the surgeons are the most reputed ones in my country!
Any help is more than welcome!!!!
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