9 replies to this topic

[M@CHINE]

How many quadriplegics have scoliosis?

[In The Wind]

I've got a pretty good curve. I think it started before I got hurt, damage from golf and twisting to hard.

[M@CHINE]

we can go as a question mark for halloween

[BillS]

T8 Para here with a lot of scoliosis. I started noticing it about 15 years post injury and it's gotten worse and worse over the past 18 years.

I haven't had rods put in and I really don't think I want to. But the pain and the curve are starting to bother me.

[M@CHINE]

did the doctor say anything about anything that could help

[Soryfam]

I'm 2 1/2 along and my doctor recently noted an significant increase in scoliosis (I didn't have any pre SCI). I guess I'll just see how it progresses and take it from there.

Sandy

[Apparelyzed]

Hi,

I found the following which may be of interest to you.

Spine deformity subsequent to acquired childhood spinal cord injury

The cases of forty children who had incurred a spinal cord injury between birth and the age of eighteen years were reviewed at two to 26.8 years (mean, ten years) after injury. In all of the twenty-five patients who were injured prior to the adolescent growth spurt paralytic spinal deformity developed; in twenty-four (96 per cent) of them it was progressive.

Scoliosis developed in twenty-three (92 per cent); kyphosis, in sixteen (64 per cent); and excessive lumbar lordosis, in five (20 per cent). Management of the spinal deformities by bracing was difficult, and seventeen patients (68 per cent) required spine fusion, usually to the sacrum.

Complications were frequent. All of the fifteen patients who were injured after the onset of the adolescent growth spurt had sustained a spinal fracture or fracture-dislocation. Nine (60 per cent) had an acute angular thoracic or thoracolumbar fracture kyphosis and seven (47 per cent) had progressive fracture kyphosis. A history of a thoracic and thoracolumbar laminectomy always was associated with increased kyphosis progression. Six (40 per cent) of these patients required spinal stabilization, usually for unstable injuries and progressive post-laminectomy deformity.

Progressive paralytic spinal deformity was uncommon in the postadolescent patient.

Source: http://www.ejbjs.org...tract/63/9/1401

[Chaz&Nina]

I happened to have scoliosis before my injury, and then they screwed up on the operation giving me the bloody spinal cord injury!!
So completely the opposite with me, i now have a reasonably straight back with the two metal rodds down each side of my spine but the care i was given wasn't good enough after the operation which caused air to get in my spinal fluid pushing onto my spinal cord and bruising it. Dont you just love the NHS

[Texas Angel Ang]

I had scoliosis surgery about nine months before my SCI... I have rods all down my back. Unfortunately scoliosis is back! So lovely lol.

[KeepTheFaith]

Had a slight scoliosis pre-injury, which has gotten worse because of extreme tone on one side. I stretch the side with the tone and I strengthen the side that is weak with exercises. I also put the FES pads on the weaker side when I am on the bike. It is slowly getting better.