No injury. Scoliosis is one of those things that the medical community does not know why it occurs.
We had found out when he was 7 when he went for a regular checkup. On some people the spine simply decides to curve instead of grow straight. He had a lower lateral curve (left to right) and an upper curve (front-to-back). He was 15 at the the time of the surgery, which was performed then so that the spine didn't fuse in the curved postion. Tom C. >From: "Kenneth Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: OT - 600mm FA or Knee - what's a photog to do ? >Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:23:00 -0500 > >Thanks Tom. > >Was there an injury that preceded his surgery. > >He must be doing well to be back to skiing. > >Kenneth Waller > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: OT - 600mm FA or Knee - what's a photog to do ? > > > > Hi Ken, > > > > I thought there must be a reason you've been a little scarce. Get well > > soon. > > > > My son had scoliois surgery last May. An incision from the top of his > > waste > > to midway around his shoulder blades. Two titanium rods up both sides of > > his > > spinal column, bolted in at ever vertebrae. The X-rays look absolutely > > barbaric. So far he's skiied four times this season and I simply cannot > > keep up with him. > > > > Tom C. > > > > > >>From: "Kenneth Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >>To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > >>Subject: OT - 600mm FA or Knee - what's a photog to do ? > >>Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:37:17 -0500 > >> > >>After hobbling around for the last several months on a bum right knee, I > >>finally had a complete new knew installed Monday morning. I figured if I > >>didn't get the knee, I'd probably never use the 600 again. I knew I had >to > >>do something when I had to cancel a fall shoot in the Upper Peninsula of > >>Michigan. > >> > >>Everything went well & I was home by Wednesday morning with the makings >of > >>a > >>fine 5 inch scar & some more reasons not to sail by airport security. > >>The Dr. I chose does around 800 of these a year (with his two > >>assistants) - > >>he does the actual installation. > >> > >>Should be back to some semblance of normalcy in around 4 to 6 weeks. The > >>Dr. > >>is a sports medicine orthopedic & believes in very aggressive therapy. I > >>had > >>4 pre operation therapy sessions and will start next week on 3 a week > >>sessions. I was up & walking within 4 hours of the surgery. > >> > >>Kenneth Waller > >> > >> > >>-- > >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>[email protected] > >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
