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Dear Colleagues,
I have a customer who has asked me to post a question on his
behalf.
My customer has a patient who has scoliosis and the mother of the
patient has
sought the opinions of two orthopedic surgeons. The two surgeons
have given
two separate treatment suggestions and now the mother is not sure
what to do.
We are looking to you for additional input and to try and
establish what the
trends are in other parts of the world.
Here are the patients details:
Age
12 years 3 months
Sex
Female (not menstruating yet)
Diagnosis
40 degree secondary thoraco-lumbar curve, concave to the left
with
the apex of the curve at T9. A 21 degree primary curve concave
to the right. There is a grade two rotation on the primary
curve.
She has a 41 degree Kyphosis and there is no Scheuermann’s
present.
The pelvic take-off seems normal.
The one doctor says she needs a Milwaukee brace and the other
says she should
go into a double curve Boston brace. Both doctors say she should
have have an operation (Harrington ?) but the mother is dead set
against an operation at this
stage.
My customer (and the patients mother) would like to have your
thoughts as
well please.
Many thanks,
Errol Lishman (CPO)
mailto:[email protected]
Orthopaedic Suppliers
http://www.pix.za/os/index.htm
http://www.freeyellow.com/members/os7/index.html
http://members.tripod.com/~os7/index.htm
PS. Have a great Thanksgiving holiday !
Errol.
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Dear Colleagues,
I have a customer who has asked me to post a question on his behalf.
My customer has a patient who has scoliosis and the mother of the
patient has
sought the opinions of two orthopedic surgeons. The two surgeons
have given
two separate treatment suggestions and now the mother is not sure
what to do.
We are looking to you for additional input and to try and establish
what the
trends are in other parts of the world.
Here are the patients details:
Age
12 years 3 months
Sex
Female (not menstruating yet)
Diagnosis
40 degree secondary thoraco-lumbar curve, concave to the left with
the apex of the curve at T9. A 21 degree primary
curve concave
to the right. There is a grade two rotation on the primary
curve.
She has a 41 degree Kyphosis and there is no Scheuermann’s present.
The pelvic take-off seems normal.
The one doctor says she needs a Milwaukee brace and the other says
she should
go into a double curve Boston brace. Both doctors say she
should have have an operation (Harrington ?) but the mother is dead set
against an operation at this
stage.
My customer (and the patients mother) would like to have your thoughts
as
well please.
Many thanks,
Errol Lishman (CPO)
Orthopaedic Suppliers
http://www.pix.za/os/index.htm
http://www.freeyellow.com/members/os7/index.html
http://members.tripod.com/~os7/index.htm
PS. Have a great Thanksgiving holiday !
Errol.
