We took our daughter (age 14) to the orthotist today to be cast for her Providence brace. She has a 30 degree thoracic curve.
In taking her measurements, he said that it looked like one leg was shorter than the other. He was quite sure of this.
Our daughter broke one leg when she was 9 years old, and as far as we know it healed properly. Of course, an orthopedist was overseeing her healing. Nobody ever mentioned anything to us about one leg being different from the other after that. I'm not sure if the fact that one leg was broken has anything to do with it, or not. There's an adult female cousin on my husband's side of the family that apparently had to have some sort of operation when she was 11 years old to help correct a similar problem. She was told that if it wasn't corrected she could get scoliosis.
I was wondering if it's common to see this with scoliosis? And...does it mean anything regarding the scoliosis? When we see the doctor again in about a month I plan to mention it to him (we recently saw a specialist at Stanford Univ. Hospital, Dr. Rinsky).
In taking her measurements, he said that it looked like one leg was shorter than the other. He was quite sure of this.
Our daughter broke one leg when she was 9 years old, and as far as we know it healed properly. Of course, an orthopedist was overseeing her healing. Nobody ever mentioned anything to us about one leg being different from the other after that. I'm not sure if the fact that one leg was broken has anything to do with it, or not. There's an adult female cousin on my husband's side of the family that apparently had to have some sort of operation when she was 11 years old to help correct a similar problem. She was told that if it wasn't corrected she could get scoliosis.
I was wondering if it's common to see this with scoliosis? And...does it mean anything regarding the scoliosis? When we see the doctor again in about a month I plan to mention it to him (we recently saw a specialist at Stanford Univ. Hospital, Dr. Rinsky).
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