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  • #16
    Linda:

    Out of curiousity, are there any New Zealanders in the Scoliosis Research Society?

    I think there are only two doctors in the country who do this procedure -- not unreasonble I suppose with a population of only 3,000,000 (people, that is, we've got 60,000,000 sheep...), but since one of them will probably be operating on my daughter, I'd like to think they're keeping up with developments in the field.

    Patricia
    Patricia
    Scoli Mum from New Zealand
    Daughter Caitlin's surgery 2nd May 2005
    Posterior fusion T3 - L1

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    • #17
      This is a rather random comment, but I just reliased that phaden probably stands for P. Haden or P.H. Aden. All this time I thought it was a strange nickname because it can be said as one word. Whoops!
      Charlotte

      48 degree upper curve
      L2 to T4
      Braced for 4 years
      Surgery 2/4/04

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      • #18
        Patricia...

        The SRS lists two current doctors in New Zealand:

        Michael J. Barnes, MD - Auckland
        Bruce F. Hodgson, FRACS - Dunedin

        --Linda
        Never argue with an idiot. They always drag you down to their level, and then they beat you with experience. --Twain
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        Surgery 2/10/93 A/P fusion T4-L3
        Surgery 1/20/11 A/P fusion L2-sacrum w/pelvic fixation

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        • #19
          Thanks so much for that, Linda. Hodgson is Caitlin's surgeon. A good sign, I guess.

          Patricia
          Patricia
          Scoli Mum from New Zealand
          Daughter Caitlin's surgery 2nd May 2005
          Posterior fusion T3 - L1

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          • #20
            Originally posted by dapsbounce8
            This is a rather random comment, but I just reliased that phaden probably stands for P. Haden or P.H. Aden. All this time I thought it was a strange nickname because it can be said as one word. Whoops!
            Like: Been a long day, I'm really fadin'?

            That's sometimes true, but actually, it's just that my last name is Haden.

            Cheers - Patricia
            Patricia
            Scoli Mum from New Zealand
            Daughter Caitlin's surgery 2nd May 2005
            Posterior fusion T3 - L1

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            • #21
              Surgery or Not?

              Dear Anna,
              I would just like to point out to you that even a 10 % correction is quite a bit, considering that you already have quite a severe curve, and that you are just beginning to look into ways of correcting it or at least stabilizing it. You are still young enough (by my own history) to get some very good correction. If you do nothing, I can tell you from my own experience that you will only get worse. God Bless you that you have had your children! Had you waited, you might not even have had them! So, now, you may have a chance to see how best to take care of them. And that might just mean having some surgery to make yourself the best that you can be physically. I do not know where you are. I only know that there are very good spinal specialists nearly everywhere. I will tell you that I had four children before my doctors convinced me to get serious about my scoliosis. I had the surgery and got some pretty decent correction. I am so very glad that I had the surgery. I am worth more to myself now, and truly worth more to my family! Listen to people like Linda Racine and Llweyn, etc. They have great intelligence to share with you. My heart goes out to you.
              Sincerely,
              Carole M. (the elder)
              Carole

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              • #22
                orthopaedic surgeons in AU

                I am an American living in Sydney AU, with permanent residence. I found the healthcare in this city to be quite good esp if one has private insurance. I have a 53 degree thoracic and a 71 dregree lumbar curve and I am probably going to have surgery in Australia some time next year. I have been seeing Dr. Andrew Cree at Westmead and he has told me that I should get a 50 percent correction. Cree was trained in Miami. The population of the whole continent is small, I think it is only slightly larger than LA's population, that is why there aren't that many doctors. Can anyone recommend another surgeon in Sydney for a second opinion?

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                • #23
                  I'm from Philippines

                  Hi Carole, thanks for your advice, but I would like to make it clear to Linda Raccineand Phaden that I'm from Philippines but still thank you for your concerns, and I don't know why there's no surgeons here to fix my scoliosis because of my age, But I'm still praying and hoping that I can still have my curve corrected. Right now I'm doing some stretching and exercise and I don't know, but it seems to help my curve less worse. Before, because the hump is in my right back, all the weak musclesare there. But with stretching and exercise it seems that it lessens the weight in my right waist and i can feel my body in a way trying to straighten the curve. I'm not saying that it straighten my back, but stretching and exercise helps me to be aware to be fit and to stand straight. and I will still continue to do exercising and stretching because I think if your muscles in your back is strong your vertebrae also will go with your muscle. I make my right back muscle to be strong and my left back muscle to stretch because that's where the tight muscle is.

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                  • #24
                    hi anna i went to a doctor in new york 2 weeks ago im 61 i have a 54 degree curve i had a solf brace put on me the company that makes it is called spine cor info@spinecorporation.com or website www.spinecorporation.com they took a x ray after bracing me and measured the thoriacic at 49 degrees a 5 degree improvment and the lumbard at 46 a 1 degree less improvement neck 0 for a total of 6 degrees improvment it is easy wearing this brace and not noticable but i will have to continue wearing it for at least 3 years i go back to the doctors for a 2 week follow up and take a x ray to see the progress if any this brace was designed for adulesents but i will try it anyhow i will also have to do pt and chiropratic theropy i ll let you know how i make out karen
                    Last edited by karen penelli; 07-03-2004, 09:06 AM.

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                    • #25
                      Bracing at 61

                      Karen,
                      I just read your message, and I do give you so much credit for trying the bracing! What's to lose? Right? I will be 70 in October, so I am older than either of you at this point, However, I have never, ever, given up hope for at least enough help to keep me (and others like me) breathing as long as possible!

                      I think the fact that life has you trying a brace at this point in your life says the same thing about you!

                      Good luck to you. Keep me posted?

                      Carole
                      Carole

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