Any Quadriplegics Have Scoliosis
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 12:21 AM
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 06:58 PM
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 10:24 PM
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 11:56 PM
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.
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Posted 21 March 2010 - 12:12 AM
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Posted 21 March 2010 - 05:12 PM
Sandy
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Posted 22 March 2010 - 08:58 AM
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
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Posted 23 March 2010 - 08:37 PM
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
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 01:50 AM
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 05:11 AM

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