Fusions

[LEELEE85]

Hi Everyone,

I was told if i need an operation i would only have to get my top curve (which is 50 degrees) fused only and not the bottom. The reason being is just too fuse the top too stop movement because i was born with the top part curved.

Is it an easier recovery for top fusion or is the bottom a lot easier to handle????

Thanks in advance

[sweetness514]

I don't think anybody here can answer that, as it is personal when pain is concerned, but fusing the lumbar vertebreas make you lose some flexibility where fusing only the thoracic spine doesn't much. I know there are people on this forum who have mostly their lumbar regions fused and they take quite some time to recuperate, but in my case it is more the thoracic screws that gave and still give me pain and problems, around T5(shoulder blades)-I'm fused from T5 to L2.

It certainly is easier to have less vertebreas fused than the whole spine though.