Lou i first in Sept. last year had surgery for scoliosis and kyphosis correction which involved fusion from T2 thru L2. Shortly after that my neck just broke. I had already been fused from the front on C4thru C7. It was starting to give me some pain but not all the time and not too bad. But the neck fracture was the reason for the Osteotomy (breaking of bone) and the fusion down to T4. So now i am fused with laminotomies and foraminotomies (sp?) down the whole fused spine. My neck had fractured causing a head on chest deformity and pain of course. I had it done in Los Angeles (Pasaena, Ca.) by my wonderful spine surgeon, DrWilliam Costigan. I only found one such surgery on line and it had taken place in the UK. My doc also did some training there as well as in Germany. He had not done that surgery in quite a while he said, because it is a rare presentation. I am very lucky to have him.
Although i am still in a brace all is fine in the neck dept.
Ask any questions, i have been through the ringer!!!
Are you having an osteotomy? Do you have too much bone grown in?
let me know
judy
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2007 ACDF 4-7
2008 hip , knee scope, hip replacement
2009 thoracic T-5 thru T-11fusion
2009 VATS T7-8, posterior only T11-12. removal of thoracic hard wear
2010 lung surgery
2010 T2-L2 kyphosis correction
2010 Kyphoplasty T-3, T-4
2011 Cervical osteotomy ,revision C4-T5
2011 Foot surgery
2011 Revision fusion T7 thru L4/laminectomy
2012 Hammertoe correction left foot
2012 Revision fusion T-12 thru L5
2012 Revision fusion L4-L5
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