I am starting to second guess my proposed fusion lengths, am I being ridiculous?
I recently travelled to NYC and saw 2 different spine surgeons for 2 diff. approaches. Dr. Lenke propsed to fuse T10-L3. Apparently this is considered short. I figured also with my curve, that it would be more, should I question Dr. Lenkes choice and why? Im wondering if i need a much higher fusion also like so many others on here, I figure he has a clear formula on how he figures these things out and I am no expert. I am having a hard time finding peace with all of this anyway and now I am questioning the expert Dr's????
The second Dr. proposed to tether T11-L3 with VBT, a completely different approach to fixing the curve. I don't know on this at all.
I am wondering if I need to go ahead and see someone else and let it confuse me even more?
Dr. Lenke had me bend over and he checked out my spine, then he had me lay on the table and pushed against the convex side and said, she's flexible to his associates in the room. He did take a standing full body x-ray also and looked at it pretty good.
I recently travelled to NYC and saw 2 different spine surgeons for 2 diff. approaches. Dr. Lenke propsed to fuse T10-L3. Apparently this is considered short. I figured also with my curve, that it would be more, should I question Dr. Lenkes choice and why? Im wondering if i need a much higher fusion also like so many others on here, I figure he has a clear formula on how he figures these things out and I am no expert. I am having a hard time finding peace with all of this anyway and now I am questioning the expert Dr's????
The second Dr. proposed to tether T11-L3 with VBT, a completely different approach to fixing the curve. I don't know on this at all.
I am wondering if I need to go ahead and see someone else and let it confuse me even more?
Dr. Lenke had me bend over and he checked out my spine, then he had me lay on the table and pushed against the convex side and said, she's flexible to his associates in the room. He did take a standing full body x-ray also and looked at it pretty good.
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