Originally posted by Pooka1
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Btw, the doc explained something that we have talked about before. He said that with bracing, they make the kids stand up super straight and that makes the spine a little less curved than it really is, even 24-48 hours out of brace. It really takes weeks or months of slouching (as we all do) for the spine to settle into it s natural curvature. So in his experience it's not uncommon to see braced kids "improve" by a few degrees while bracing, but then have that improvement go away and even get a few degrees worse in the follow up after cessation. He said that he specifically budgets in a ten percent "settling" progression when recommending surgery or not in kids who are bracing at maturity. (Hence his warning that at her next scan my daughter will likely be around 42-43T and 39-40L.)
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