ruth; be prepared that the best you can expect is to "buy some time" prior to surgery by using the spinecor, the chance it will give any substantial improvement is small. Surgery is not a disaster or failure; it is a blessing that with todays technology these things can be succesfully put right.
melissa; hope you and nicole and other familymembers are ok
celia; i am just back from little trip to holland; parents had their 50 year golden wedding anniversary on 26/9; big party, great fun, son played beautiful piano and l danced for guests, very touching...
cheryl; we are so much in a similar situation; keep your head up, girl!!
generally; re in/out brace xrays; the protocol states yearly in and out of brace xrays with in brace xrays in between, one wonders how much this is out of clinical necessity and how much this protocol is driven for research reasons.
strictly speaking, as long as everything is stable and under control in the brace you can hardly see anyreason to do out of brace xrays as the experience is that the eventual outcome of treatment is predicted by the extend of the curve whilst being treated (i.e.; in brace) (this is assuming that published evidence is correct)
I think that once things are not under control, or when you worry whether (certain aspects of) the treatment could actually be harmful, it becomes more logical to ask for out of brace xrays
in this context, we will be asking for one as we worry we have lost control, and we worry that the brace is exacerbating the 2nd curve. For similar reasons, i think celia should ask for an out of brace picture next time, but then, knowing her, she will make up her own mind about this
melissa; hope you and nicole and other familymembers are ok
celia; i am just back from little trip to holland; parents had their 50 year golden wedding anniversary on 26/9; big party, great fun, son played beautiful piano and l danced for guests, very touching...
cheryl; we are so much in a similar situation; keep your head up, girl!!
generally; re in/out brace xrays; the protocol states yearly in and out of brace xrays with in brace xrays in between, one wonders how much this is out of clinical necessity and how much this protocol is driven for research reasons.
strictly speaking, as long as everything is stable and under control in the brace you can hardly see anyreason to do out of brace xrays as the experience is that the eventual outcome of treatment is predicted by the extend of the curve whilst being treated (i.e.; in brace) (this is assuming that published evidence is correct)
I think that once things are not under control, or when you worry whether (certain aspects of) the treatment could actually be harmful, it becomes more logical to ask for out of brace xrays
in this context, we will be asking for one as we worry we have lost control, and we worry that the brace is exacerbating the 2nd curve. For similar reasons, i think celia should ask for an out of brace picture next time, but then, knowing her, she will make up her own mind about this
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