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You seem to be saying your actual curve magnitude isn't changing because you are fused but the PT is affecting your soft tissue such that you look less concave, yes? That is not crazy in my lay...

I sometimes get notifications but they come days later.

Can I just ask how addressing ONE level can be expected to change the torso position?

Hi Jen.

As I said before, I think you have done a stellar job preparing and understanding your case.

I agree with having someone stay with you as much as possible. Things like keeping track of...

I thought the way they tell if it is structural is how much it bends out, no? Did your surgeon do bending films?

I think they did wake her up but I don't have the notes. Are there other ways to check?

Interesting comment re rotation. Both my daughters had similarly large curves but one was sort of pure thoracic which was highly and obviously rotated to the naked eye and the other had a false...

I can't find the abstracts.

Abstract Session 1. Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis I

14:00-14:05 Welcome

14:05-14:09 Paper #1: Retrospective Matched Comparison Study on Anterior Vertebral Body...

Hey Concerneddad, that's very good news.

I am copying/pasting results from a SRS talk along with the link which doesn't go directly to the talk but here are the results... point #4 is relevant to...

Hey. I just want to say I admire your command of the situation and your knowledge base.

I think you will figure this out and be successful.

Best regards,

Sharon

I just tried and failed to find what the material is in that implant. I would have to pull more references.

Maybe someone else knows.

I mean I have only heard reference to the one case type (T curve fused above a certain point with a straight enough lumbar) as being able to be stable for life. More case types could easily have...

juveniles are a very small population. Maybe you mean adolescents? If so, we have decades of data on fusion. T fusions that stay above about T12 or L1 and that drive enough straightness in...

I live in NC. No rational parent when faced with a medical consensus denies their child care. There are some objectively irrational parents who think they have a choice but they don't.

There are...

Surgery for my kids was not my choice. I think a court would have stepped in had I refused it for them. There is a medical consensus on fusion for large, progressing T curves in AIS. My role was...

You make some great points. I completely agree with you, Tina.

Doctors on Doctor Radio mention Schroth from time to time and I think it is ignorant. Schroth has been studied for decades on the...

I apologize for speaking for you on the point of needing PT for life. I do think that others think that, though.

I hope I have never denied a subjective observation from somebody. All such...

Schroth does NOT have any results for anyone and the proof of that is the LACK of evidence for efficacy despite having years and tens of thousands of patients to prove it works. At some point, the...

Hi. I don't recall the exchange but I doubt I doubted your impression of how your hips looked straighter after PT. PT can have some improvement mainly using muscle to pull some straightness without...

I second Ed's and Linda's suggestion that you obtain all the radiologist's reports. They are the only people who can competently review your images. If they don't remark about something then it is...

Hi Donna. I am really sorry to hear of your pan.

I don't have scoliosis but broke my back last March (compression fracture of L3). Even after it healed, I have dealt with pain episodes off and...

Well Marfan's syndrome at least is associated with both scoliosis and heart/aorta issues.

I think there is evidence PT helps with pain.

I don't think there is evidence that Schroth is better for pain than other PT modalities. I don't see how the cost can possibly be justified.
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I think you are referencing this from Ed...


Although chiro is not a science and chiro spinal subluxations have been proven to be imaginary, I have tried chiro myself and also had a few sessions...

I think that guy is an original thinker. I also agree that he is not a scoli surgeon per se. I think he just realized that these one and two level lumbar fusions he was doing for back pain weren't...