Aussies with Scoliosis

[Curvy01]

Hey Guys!

Is there any Australian people on this forum with scoliosis?

[LEELEE85]

I'm an Aussie

Hey There,

I'm from Australia too. Where abouts you from? If you have any questions just ask email is lee_rouw@hotmail.com or you can private message me.
How bad are your curves?
There are a few aussies on here but not that many...
Good too see another from down under.

LeeLee

[Curvy01]

Hello Lee,

Yes i have noticed there seems to be few Aussies so I started a thread...

I can see 'Yoga & Scolosis workshops' etc for people in the U.S but none here, I don't think they exist, do they? Anyhow, I thought this could be a way to exchange thoughts and if there are some good things here in Oz, this would we the way to find out and discuss...

[Megan_aust]

Scoliosis in Australia

Hi,

I'm also from Australia. My curves are 31 degrees thoracic, approx 20 degrees lumbar. I wore a brace from when I was 14 to when I was 16 and try and do yoga every day.

I would suggest a yoga teacher with some form of medical background. I have also been told that the yoga for scoliosis DVD by elise browning miller is very good.

Megan

[LEELEE85]

I live in Melbourne and where i live there is a pilates/Yoga studio program that they do at a physio place. Which i do once a week. But my curves are severe and im getting surgery next year.
There isn't as much advertisment here as there is in the USA.
Where abouts in Australia are you guys from?

[Curvy01]

I am from Syd.

Megan - Yes, I have Elise's DVD
How do you continue to be motivated and do yoga everyday, does it get boring? Do you just do it for the pain?

[javaboy]

Aussie here too... though I have congenital kyphoscoliosis, so I'm a bit different.
I have been doing Pilates and swimming, rather than yoga, guided by an excellent physio.

[macky]

Well guys I was one of the first people to be operated on here in Austraila. I had Ideopathic scoliosis. I was operated on at the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne ( actually it was at Frankston back then)

Mr Harrington visited Sydney in 1965 I think it was as my occupational therapist met him and sat in on a scoliosis operation where he inserted Harrington rods.

I got such a shock when she told me. Here I am in Launceston and meeting up with her was such a co-incidence,
Just a bit of background, for you all.

Regards,
Macky

[I_luv_Jay]

Although I don't get much time to come on here I'm also from Australia. I'm now 17 neraly 18 years old and had scoliosis surgery when I was 15. My post about my diagnosis/surgery etc should still be able to be found on the forum somewhere if you look for my posts specifically.

Richelle

ps- It's good to know there are some more Aussies on here who have experienced/are experiencing what I have.

[misspaula]

Aussie

Hi there,

I've only just joined this site. So glad to hear from some Aussies. I'm in western Sydney and have recently been to see Dr Cummine for a first consulation at Westmead.
Does anyone know of him? I'm thinking of seeing Dr Cree for a second opinion as well.
I've had idiopathic scoliosis since my teens, I'm 57 now and the constant pain, the uncomfortable feeling all the time and the rib hump and the slow worsening of the curves have finally driven me to see a specialist to find out if an operation is for me.

[I_luv_Jay]

Hi there,

I've only just joined this site. So glad to hear from some Aussies. I'm in western Sydney and have recently been to see Dr Cummine for a first consulation at Westmead.
Does anyone know of him? I'm thinking of seeing Dr Cree for a second opinion as well.
I've had idiopathic scoliosis since my teens, I'm 57 now and the constant pain, the uncomfortable feeling all the time and the rib hump and the slow worsening of the curves have finally driven me to see a specialist to find out if an operation is for me.

No I havent heard of Dr Cummine but I have of Dr Cree as he was my specialist/surgeon wen i had surgery.
richelle

[misspaula]

Thankyou so much for the reply. I think I might see Dr Cree as well for a second opinion. I don't know whether he treats adults, I'm no teenager!

[misspaula]

I live in Melbourne and where i live there is a pilates/Yoga studio program that they do at a physio place. Which i do once a week. But my curves are severe and im getting surgery next year.
There isn't as much advertisment here as there is in the USA.
Where abouts in Australia are you guys from?

How did the Doctor's appt go? Have you got the surgery date yet? Did he say what degree of correction you might get? How did the bending xrays go?

[LEELEE85]

How did the Doctor's appt go? Have you got the surgery date yet? Did he say what degree of correction you might get? How did the bending xrays go?

Hi.....
Yes i have booked in a date for 28th May 2007 and i will get my top curve from 60 - around 40 degrees and my bottom curve will go from 50 - around 5 degrees. So im happy with that.
Bending Xrays went good a little sore for the next two days after that cos i had to bend all different ways and stuff but all over it wasn't too bad.

Let me know how you go after your appts?

Lee

[misspaula]

Quandry

Hi Lee

I will put your surgery date on my calendar!

I am in such a quandry! My curves are nowhere near as bad as yours. 39 right thoracic and 39 left lumbar. So I end up with my head in line over my pelvis as it should be. I still have flexibility so my Doctor says, but I haven't had recent bending xrays done and the curves are progressing slowly and simultaneously.

Do I wait another 10 years when the curves will be worse and so will the pain and I'll probably have arthritis and God knows what else 'cause I'll be near 70!!

Or do I get the surgery done now when the curves aren't so bad and my spine is still flexible so I should get a good result.

I feel so wimpy and shallow when I read about other people's curves and associated problems. But then, the Doctor wouldn't have agreed to operate if he didn't think it would be worth the cost and pain and long recovery.

Paula