Originally posted by rohrer01
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I would like to hear what a surgeon measures for those three radiographs. I played around with it, drew the lines and damned if I could then find a protractor! I have to wait until my two young associates return from school so they can clue me in as to where the protractor is hiding. The 2003 curve has progressed from the 1996 one but only by maybe 5* just eyeballing it. The 2011 curve has progressed from the 2003 curve at the top but the straightening of the lumbar complicates things it seems. That curve may be similar in magnitude to the 2003 curve only because of the lumbar straightening. All those T curves are in the low-mid 40* range in my unlettered, mealy-mouthed, lay opinion. :-)
But it is fascinating to think that straightening the non-structural lumbar may slow or even halt progression of a structural T curve. Maybe the approach of working on the non-structural curve is more effective that addressing the structural one.
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