I would like to hear from anyone that has had anterior only surgery to correct their scoliosis. My daughter had anterior only surgery in August of 2006. She was scheduled to have posterior only surgery,but the day before the surgery the surgeon changed his plan to anterior only. We were already at the hospital and it was out of town, so we had no time for another opinion at that point and put all our faith in the surgeon's call. She was 16 at the time and is now 22 years old. She has had excruitiating pain ever since her surgery. We have had multiple opinions in the last 7 years and every surgeon we went to when he looked at her X-rays asked us why it was done anterior only. I do remember the surgeon saying he though it would giver her a better correction by doing it anterior only but we had it done at Shriner's hospital in Chicago and the surgeon is now at another hospital. I have tried to reach him but have not recieved a call back and since he is at another hospital he probably would not remember her surgery anyway without having access to her records. Every surgeon we have been to for antother opinion has said that they would have done a posterior surgery or and anterior plus posterior. Those that recommended revision have said they would go in posteriorly and stabalize her more and also go down another level or 2.
She is fused from T-10 to L-2. It seems that she has significant pain right over the area of her fusion. Of course, the pain managment doctors have always been focusing at the unfused part of her spiine below her fusion because of the stress that a fusion can put on the lower levels. She has had epidurals and facet block injections on those lower levels with little help.
Today he took a lot of time to think this out what could be causing her pain and now he thinks that since the spine is fused only anteriorly that maybe the posterior part of her spince (where her fusion is) is not totally stable and that could be causing her pain since that is the worst area of pain.
I have searched this forum and I seem to only be able to find people that have had Anterior and Posterior or only Posterior. Is there anyone on here that has had anterior only or is it really that uncommon?
She is fused from T-10 to L-2. It seems that she has significant pain right over the area of her fusion. Of course, the pain managment doctors have always been focusing at the unfused part of her spiine below her fusion because of the stress that a fusion can put on the lower levels. She has had epidurals and facet block injections on those lower levels with little help.
Today he took a lot of time to think this out what could be causing her pain and now he thinks that since the spine is fused only anteriorly that maybe the posterior part of her spince (where her fusion is) is not totally stable and that could be causing her pain since that is the worst area of pain.
I have searched this forum and I seem to only be able to find people that have had Anterior and Posterior or only Posterior. Is there anyone on here that has had anterior only or is it really that uncommon?
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