Hello Everybody,
I’m new to this forum and have just been reading some of the interesting posts. It’s only just this last week I decided to look on the net for Scoliosis related items and found this forum to have quite a following.
I was diagnosed with Scoliosis in 1975. I was 17 years old then, and the following year I spent nearly 4 months in the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore having the corrective surgery. My surgeon was a Mr Edger and I owe so much to him and the staff at this hospital.
I remember having to do manual traction for 2 week prior to the operation. I had around 8 pounds in weight pulling on my neck and a harness around my hips, after which I was cocooned in a full body plaster cast, after being stretched on a rack system to achieve the best correction possible.
The following week I had the Harrington instrumentation fitted along with the spinal fusion.
I’m not sure as to the length of the fusion, but the Harrington instrumentation goes the full length of my spine. It was some 6 weeks after this I started to learn to walk again, and finaly
I came home.
I would be interested to see if anyone on this forum has been in the RNOH. I’m now 48 years
old and have no problems in the previous 30 years since the op.
Very best wishes,
Martin.
I’m new to this forum and have just been reading some of the interesting posts. It’s only just this last week I decided to look on the net for Scoliosis related items and found this forum to have quite a following.
I was diagnosed with Scoliosis in 1975. I was 17 years old then, and the following year I spent nearly 4 months in the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore having the corrective surgery. My surgeon was a Mr Edger and I owe so much to him and the staff at this hospital.
I remember having to do manual traction for 2 week prior to the operation. I had around 8 pounds in weight pulling on my neck and a harness around my hips, after which I was cocooned in a full body plaster cast, after being stretched on a rack system to achieve the best correction possible.
The following week I had the Harrington instrumentation fitted along with the spinal fusion.
I’m not sure as to the length of the fusion, but the Harrington instrumentation goes the full length of my spine. It was some 6 weeks after this I started to learn to walk again, and finaly
I came home.
I would be interested to see if anyone on this forum has been in the RNOH. I’m now 48 years
old and have no problems in the previous 30 years since the op.
Very best wishes,
Martin.
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