Hey,
I am a male with 30 years old. I have been submitted to scoliosis surgery and I will hit my 4th month threshold very soon. I am fused from T3 to T10.
My surgery went very well or so they told me.
I do have a little bit of shoulder imbalance. I did have my 1 month follow-up with my surgeon and he told me to look myself in the mirror and to try to correct my posture. He says the inner ear and the vestibular system has to adapt to my new body shape and sense of perception. Although it might be the case, I think it is a side effect of surgery like this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230354/
My movements kind of remain similar to the pre-op times, That is, some muscle memory still lingers and the muscles are having a hard time at settling down into new position.
But I am writing in the forum to hear your answers to this questions:
1) Did you feel crooked just after surgery? I did, my scoliosis was well hidden in the thoracic spine but right after surgery I thought surgery could not achieve a good correction. When I looked at the post op x- ray I was both surprised and happy. The correction of the bones was instantaneous but the muscular imbalances take time to subside. That might have been the cause to the crooked feeling.
2) On my post-op x ray I had a little neck tilt. This was just a confirmation because when I stand up the first time and I saw myself on the mirror I was able to check this. Do you remember the sensation of your body standing up the first time? Did your posture changed 1 year after surgery for the better?
3) On the last weeks my shoulder imbalance has improved but I still think something just not rest as it should. I still have to think how to put my clavicles, and my shoulder blades into a normal resting position (mainly the right one). But it does not come naturally. Did you struggle with this?
4) what was you schedule of recovery? when did your doctor lift the restrictions to have the normal range of movements and flexibility so you could just forget to have precautions with your back? Like have a normal life and pick up things from the floor and stuff? Do you still log-roll? I mean, when did you start to have confidence to live a normal life without being aware of the major surgery you went through, like stop obsessing over your movements so you don't break the hardware/instrumentation?
5) when was the month or week in the recovery that you started to feel really better?
I numbered my questions to make it easier for you to answer.
thanks in advance
I am a male with 30 years old. I have been submitted to scoliosis surgery and I will hit my 4th month threshold very soon. I am fused from T3 to T10.
My surgery went very well or so they told me.
I do have a little bit of shoulder imbalance. I did have my 1 month follow-up with my surgeon and he told me to look myself in the mirror and to try to correct my posture. He says the inner ear and the vestibular system has to adapt to my new body shape and sense of perception. Although it might be the case, I think it is a side effect of surgery like this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230354/
My movements kind of remain similar to the pre-op times, That is, some muscle memory still lingers and the muscles are having a hard time at settling down into new position.
But I am writing in the forum to hear your answers to this questions:
1) Did you feel crooked just after surgery? I did, my scoliosis was well hidden in the thoracic spine but right after surgery I thought surgery could not achieve a good correction. When I looked at the post op x- ray I was both surprised and happy. The correction of the bones was instantaneous but the muscular imbalances take time to subside. That might have been the cause to the crooked feeling.
2) On my post-op x ray I had a little neck tilt. This was just a confirmation because when I stand up the first time and I saw myself on the mirror I was able to check this. Do you remember the sensation of your body standing up the first time? Did your posture changed 1 year after surgery for the better?
3) On the last weeks my shoulder imbalance has improved but I still think something just not rest as it should. I still have to think how to put my clavicles, and my shoulder blades into a normal resting position (mainly the right one). But it does not come naturally. Did you struggle with this?
4) what was you schedule of recovery? when did your doctor lift the restrictions to have the normal range of movements and flexibility so you could just forget to have precautions with your back? Like have a normal life and pick up things from the floor and stuff? Do you still log-roll? I mean, when did you start to have confidence to live a normal life without being aware of the major surgery you went through, like stop obsessing over your movements so you don't break the hardware/instrumentation?
5) when was the month or week in the recovery that you started to feel really better?
I numbered my questions to make it easier for you to answer.
thanks in advance
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