So good to hear that your daughter is so much more active now that she's had her surgery. Yes, my son basically stopped all physical activity (except walk a few blocks back and forth to school) this past six months or even more b/c it just hurt too much. We'd go to the larger outdoor mall back home where they had the bigger stores and they were spread out across a fairly big parking lot and he'd always calculate the distance between the stores we wanted to go to and whether he felt he could walk or whether we should drive. That's pretty sad when a 14 y/o boy has to think ahead to see if he can make it certain distance and back again without really bad back pain. I felt so bad for him b/c other boys his age were all whizzing by on skateboards and bikes and just plain old walking around with their buddies.
He hasn't had the second surgery yet but he has not once complained about his back being sore since the first surgery where he had a posterior release and right away his spine and rib cage sprung back to a more normal position. The traction really helps to keep it that way too so I'm assuming once he has his rods put in that will keep his spine from bending and pulling his muscles so tight to the one side that it caused a lot of pain. He even had the bright red stretchmarks over his ribs b/c he was so rotated. Those stretchmarks have shifted closer to his back now and have actually faded quite a bit these past three weeks.
He hasn't had the second surgery yet but he has not once complained about his back being sore since the first surgery where he had a posterior release and right away his spine and rib cage sprung back to a more normal position. The traction really helps to keep it that way too so I'm assuming once he has his rods put in that will keep his spine from bending and pulling his muscles so tight to the one side that it caused a lot of pain. He even had the bright red stretchmarks over his ribs b/c he was so rotated. Those stretchmarks have shifted closer to his back now and have actually faded quite a bit these past three weeks.
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