Scott,
I just now looked at your photograph. You look tight along the spine on the right side for sure. However, you aren't bending over straight, either. It's really hard to tell when you aren't standing symmetrically and leaning to one side with your right arm forward and your left arm down. If you had someone take a photo with you leaning forward while dangling both arms down, we could see if you have a rib hump. I think your back looks the way you describe because of what you are demonstrating with that box. I can't see a rib hump in THIS photograph, not saying you don't have one. If you do, it isn't huge, though.
Are you sure you didn't crack a vertebra with your accident? That would cause muscle spasms for sure. I see that your photo and your report are several years apart as well. How are you guessing your degree of curvature? Has anyone (meaning a radiologist) measured your curve? You need to get that done ASAP so you can get some peace of mind! Even if your curve is in the 20's, it's still considered mild. Chronic muscle spasms will definitely make you stand crooked making it look as though you have scoliosis.
I'm a little worried for you that you have some other process going on other than scoliosis that is being overlooked. It seems that once you get that diagnosis, everything else gets shoved into that scoli box by you (us) as the patient and by the doctors. That's why they missed my disease for so many years. Everything was shoved into the scoli box. No pun intended. I believe that your injury was real and that you strained or sprained your back. If that is the size of the boxes you were working with, it wouldn't take much. It's an awkward motion to do repetitively. Did it cause scoliosis? Maybe, if you've been in a state of spasm all these years. It seems unlikely that the spasms would last that long unless you have an underlying condition. I wish you the best and hope you figure this out. Please, don't try to guess your own curve...especially by looking at external photos.
Sleep well,
Rohrer01
I just now looked at your photograph. You look tight along the spine on the right side for sure. However, you aren't bending over straight, either. It's really hard to tell when you aren't standing symmetrically and leaning to one side with your right arm forward and your left arm down. If you had someone take a photo with you leaning forward while dangling both arms down, we could see if you have a rib hump. I think your back looks the way you describe because of what you are demonstrating with that box. I can't see a rib hump in THIS photograph, not saying you don't have one. If you do, it isn't huge, though.
Are you sure you didn't crack a vertebra with your accident? That would cause muscle spasms for sure. I see that your photo and your report are several years apart as well. How are you guessing your degree of curvature? Has anyone (meaning a radiologist) measured your curve? You need to get that done ASAP so you can get some peace of mind! Even if your curve is in the 20's, it's still considered mild. Chronic muscle spasms will definitely make you stand crooked making it look as though you have scoliosis.
I'm a little worried for you that you have some other process going on other than scoliosis that is being overlooked. It seems that once you get that diagnosis, everything else gets shoved into that scoli box by you (us) as the patient and by the doctors. That's why they missed my disease for so many years. Everything was shoved into the scoli box. No pun intended. I believe that your injury was real and that you strained or sprained your back. If that is the size of the boxes you were working with, it wouldn't take much. It's an awkward motion to do repetitively. Did it cause scoliosis? Maybe, if you've been in a state of spasm all these years. It seems unlikely that the spasms would last that long unless you have an underlying condition. I wish you the best and hope you figure this out. Please, don't try to guess your own curve...especially by looking at external photos.
Sleep well,
Rohrer01
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