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Hi, Delta!
Yes, those videos are amazing. It takes a lot of brut strength to be a scoliosis surgeon, just like it does to be a mechanic. For me personally, that is the primary reason I see a male doctor. I wouldn't feel comfortable with a female doctor for this procedure. But there are plenty of female doctors out there that seem to do a very good job. It's just that men, in general, have more upper body strength than do women. But there are also some really good female mechanics. I haven't found one. For instance, we take our car in to get it aligned. One time, the mechanic was a female. We were told that there was something wrong with our vehicle which prevented it from being aligned properly. We went on vacation in the winter and our vehicle was extremely hard to control on the ice. When we got back from our vacation I took the vehicle in to have the alignment checked again. This time it was a male mechanic and he was able to easily align the vehicle properly. This made me a little angry because our vacation was very stressful and dangerous. After this experience, I will NOT let a female mechanic work on my vehicle for things that take such physical strength. It also made me think of scoliosis surgery, since I have seen many of these videos before. I know someone with poor correction from surgery. This individual was young and healthy which makes the surgery "easier" to perform. She should have gotten a near 100% correction, but didn't get anywhere that good. I asked about this surgeon at one of my doctor's appointments to find out if she was still performing scoliosis surgeries. I was told that she was not because she injured her shoulder. So this is my own bias, prejudice, or whatever you want to call it, against women scoliosis surgeons. I'm not at all prejudiced against women doctors, but there are just some areas of medicine that I feel they are not best suited for, even if the woman is particularly large, which the one that I mentioned is.
I'll probably get reamed for posting this, LOL. But this is something that I personally consider when choosing a doctor to deal with my scoliosis. That's what makes ME comfortable.
I can't wait to see your x-rays! Did they put it on a disc for you? That's the best way to look at them. They come with a program formatted with the tools you need to measure your curves. Many of us will look at it, but since most of us don't have the program on our computers (it's on the disc itself) we won't be able to measure it for you. However, you can look on the forum for x-rays of people with different curve magnitudes. My curve magnitude is about 46* (measured by 2 SRS doctors who both got the same measurement). My recent measurement of 42* comes from lack of consistency. I trust the higher one because of the fact that two specialists agreed on that measurement. So if you look at my x-rays vs. someone with a much larger curve, you can kind of figure out where you are most likely at. I have one x-ray posted that was measured at 41* before some progression. So if yours looks similar in magnitude then you'll know. You have to consider rotation, too. It can make a smaller lateral curve look much larger from the outside. But the x-rays will show what's going on in the inside.
Well, I've rambled long enough. I look forward to seeing your x-rays!
Yes, those videos are amazing. It takes a lot of brut strength to be a scoliosis surgeon, just like it does to be a mechanic. For me personally, that is the primary reason I see a male doctor. I wouldn't feel comfortable with a female doctor for this procedure. But there are plenty of female doctors out there that seem to do a very good job. It's just that men, in general, have more upper body strength than do women. But there are also some really good female mechanics. I haven't found one. For instance, we take our car in to get it aligned. One time, the mechanic was a female. We were told that there was something wrong with our vehicle which prevented it from being aligned properly. We went on vacation in the winter and our vehicle was extremely hard to control on the ice. When we got back from our vacation I took the vehicle in to have the alignment checked again. This time it was a male mechanic and he was able to easily align the vehicle properly. This made me a little angry because our vacation was very stressful and dangerous. After this experience, I will NOT let a female mechanic work on my vehicle for things that take such physical strength. It also made me think of scoliosis surgery, since I have seen many of these videos before. I know someone with poor correction from surgery. This individual was young and healthy which makes the surgery "easier" to perform. She should have gotten a near 100% correction, but didn't get anywhere that good. I asked about this surgeon at one of my doctor's appointments to find out if she was still performing scoliosis surgeries. I was told that she was not because she injured her shoulder. So this is my own bias, prejudice, or whatever you want to call it, against women scoliosis surgeons. I'm not at all prejudiced against women doctors, but there are just some areas of medicine that I feel they are not best suited for, even if the woman is particularly large, which the one that I mentioned is.
I'll probably get reamed for posting this, LOL. But this is something that I personally consider when choosing a doctor to deal with my scoliosis. That's what makes ME comfortable.
I can't wait to see your x-rays! Did they put it on a disc for you? That's the best way to look at them. They come with a program formatted with the tools you need to measure your curves. Many of us will look at it, but since most of us don't have the program on our computers (it's on the disc itself) we won't be able to measure it for you. However, you can look on the forum for x-rays of people with different curve magnitudes. My curve magnitude is about 46* (measured by 2 SRS doctors who both got the same measurement). My recent measurement of 42* comes from lack of consistency. I trust the higher one because of the fact that two specialists agreed on that measurement. So if you look at my x-rays vs. someone with a much larger curve, you can kind of figure out where you are most likely at. I have one x-ray posted that was measured at 41* before some progression. So if yours looks similar in magnitude then you'll know. You have to consider rotation, too. It can make a smaller lateral curve look much larger from the outside. But the x-rays will show what's going on in the inside.
Well, I've rambled long enough. I look forward to seeing your x-rays!
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