If at all possible, keep your back perfectly straight at all times.
Janice
From: john snodgrass
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:03 AM
To: transverse myelitis
Subject: RE: [TMIC] TM
hummm,
something to watchout for after walking funny for 3 years.
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Emily <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Emily <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [TMIC] TM
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 6:53 AM
My husband has a 1” lift inside of his shoe that was made especially
for him due to the same problem….one leg shorter than the other. The orthotic
is removable so he can put it in whatever shoe he wears. The one that is
shorter is the one that has been effected by the spinal cord injury.
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From: L T CHERPESKI [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:20 AM
To: [email protected]; Janice Nichols
Subject: Re: [TMIC] TM
Janice,
I'm not sure if I wrote about it, but when I started another round of
physical therapy several months ago, the therapist found that my left leg was
one inch shorter than the right. And that really doesn't surprise me when I
think about "walking/wobbling" with a cane for years. Our gait is slightly
"off" The therapist worked on me from top of my neck to my toes for almost 2
hours, which didn't feel very good, but did I ever feel like a new person when
she was done and I stood up!!
Good luck, hope it all goes well and you find the relief you're looking
for.
Linda C (Eagle, ID)
----- Original Message -----
From: Janice Nichols
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 9:14 PM
Subject: [TMIC] TM
Dear Friends,
Some months ago, one of you wrote in asking if anyone had a problem
with maybe 1 leg being shorter than the other since having TM. At the time,
I had not heard
of that being a possibility. I now know what whoever was
talking about. My legs are still the same length and my spine is straight,
but I am walking now as though
one leg is slightly longer than the other. It is caused by the
myelitis and they tell me with therapy, they can fix it - I hope.
So, to whoever wrote in asking about
that, I hope they got help for it. Something happens in the upper
back hip area. Anyway, I am working on fixing this and hope no one else has
this problem.
Janice
