VBT/ASC under a fusion?

[JScoli91]

Hi all, looking for a singular place for the dumping of thoughts, ideas and opinions regarding VBT/ASC under a 16 year old CD implant pre-existing fusion that may or may not be holding. The fusion is T2-T12 and corrected a 45 degree curve to 14 and is now measured at 31. The VBT/ASC would be for a lumbar curve originally 25 corrected to 20 and now up to 40. I would hope VBT/ASC might be an option so as to preserve a good amount of flexibility and mobility considering I am only 28 almost 29.

[Pooka1]

This Facebook group might be the largest online group of people who are familiar with tethering..

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ScoliosisTethering/

Concerneddad on this forum is a member there and can tell you about the group.

There are some young adults who are tethered but I think the best answer to your questions will have to come from the surgeons who do it and not lay patients.

[Concerneddad]

This Facebook group might be the largest online group of people who are familiar with tethering..

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ScoliosisTethering/

Concerneddad on this forum is a member there and can tell you about the group.

There are some young adults who are tethered but I think the best answer to your questions will have to come from the surgeons who do it and not lay patients.

Sharon is right. The only people who are going to be able to tell you whether you'd be a candidate for ASC (you wouldn't be one for VBT -- that's for teenagers and younger) are going to be the handful of docs who do it on mature adults. Given your age and your prior fusion, you're in a unique category, and I doubt there is anyone else who has an experience that is comparable.

[JScoli91]

Is there a relatively easy way to find those doctors who do ASC?

[Pooka1]

Www.spineandscoliosis.com/drs-abc

[Concerneddad]

Www.spineandscoliosis.com/drs-abc

Also:

https://www.scoliosisassociates.com/...eet-dr-lonner/

Those are the only ones I'm aware of in America who will do adult adults (there are a couple of others who will do skeletally mature teenagers, but they usually have a cutoff around 20 yo). There reportedly are also a couple in Europe but I haven't looked into that.