Any Quadriplegics Have Scoliosis
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M@CHINE
, Mar 20 2010 12:21 AM
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#4
Posted 20 March 2010 - 11:56 PM
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.
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.
Just a regular guy making his way through life.
#7
Posted 22 March 2010 - 08:58 AM
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
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
#8
Posted 23 March 2010 - 08:37 PM
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
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
#10
Posted 24 March 2010 - 05:11 AM
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.
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