After some searching I have found the Boachie interview in question.
This:
does not equal this, from the Boachie interview in question:
The bolded quote from your posts reflects a kind of assurance about outcome that I simply do not see in Boachie's far more nuanced stance.
The nuancing becomes even more clear when you include the previous sentence - the case he is comparing these kids to:
So, emphasis mine, here is Boachie's comparison: if you do one thing the child "is going to have problems," and if you do the other thing "they can do very well . . . provided."
So, I don't have any argument with Boachie's statemnt - I think that's a fair comparison, although I actually didn't realize the picture for lumbar curves was quite so grim. "They are going to have problems 20 to 25 years later" - that's far more black and white then I'd imagined. But, that kids whose curves end above that *can* do fine (i.e., that they're not guaranteed to have problems) "provided" is an entirely reasonable and nuanced statement.
I'm glad I took the time to look that up. The "one-stop shopping" thing from a surgeon was sort of going down the wrong way - they're optimistic, but they're mostly fairly nuanced in their optimism.
[Note - 12/29 - went back and added a note correcting Boachie's quote to all previous posts of mine on this topic.]
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But if you fuse them to L1 or T12, they can do very well for the rest of their lives, provided the remaining lumbar spine is properly aligned and has not shifted."
The nuancing becomes even more clear when you include the previous sentence - the case he is comparing these kids to:
"If you fuse a 13-year-old to L4, 20 to 25 years later, at the most, he or she is going to have problems at L4-5 and L5-S1 levels."
So, I don't have any argument with Boachie's statemnt - I think that's a fair comparison, although I actually didn't realize the picture for lumbar curves was quite so grim. "They are going to have problems 20 to 25 years later" - that's far more black and white then I'd imagined. But, that kids whose curves end above that *can* do fine (i.e., that they're not guaranteed to have problems) "provided" is an entirely reasonable and nuanced statement.
I'm glad I took the time to look that up. The "one-stop shopping" thing from a surgeon was sort of going down the wrong way - they're optimistic, but they're mostly fairly nuanced in their optimism.
[Note - 12/29 - went back and added a note correcting Boachie's quote to all previous posts of mine on this topic.]
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