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Has Anyone Gotten Osteotomy Surgery To Fix Curve In Neck? Been Reading Up On It. Just Looking For Info On What Is Best For Me.
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My neck is curving and forcing me to look at floor

posted March 31
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I have a reverse curve in my neck too, loads of other garbage also wrong with it. Why do we even have necks anyway?! I know I know. I'm about to get stem cell therapy. An osteotomy is pretty drastic. I definitely would only let a Neuro surgeon do that one. 3 opinions from surgeons not of the same med group and all agreeing that absolutely no other alternative is appropriate. Good luck

posted March 31
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Well, the stem cell wont reverse my curve. However, mine probably isn't as bad as yours. I've been doing PT for mine about 7 years really focusing on it. That helped quite a lot and I'm not having to look at the ground all the time. Yet.. I have Psoriatic Spondylitis, a soft tissue first disease. It causes inflammation of the tendons, ligaments, and cartilage at the joint connections, the entheses, in cervical cases thats at the facets of the vertebra. Its been there long enough to cause arthropathy, stenosis of 5 nerves, and crumbling discs (degenerative disc disease), so I'm not expecting perfection by any stretch. However, it is supposedly good for soft tissue repair and taking inflammation from the soft tissues. My ultimate hope is that it enables me to speak more clearly, walk with better stability and balance, have less foggy headedness as a result of inflammationbeing taken off of those nerves affecting those abilities. Hopefully it'll be so successful that I can get it again in a year for my S/Is. Otherwise, I'm looking at a 6 level cervical fusion. C3-T2 or something like that. I was recently reading about a new surgical possibility where an inplant called TOPS is placed on the spine after cleaning arthritic disease off the vertebra to stabilize/support the vertebra without fusing it, leaves some flexibility. How long have you done physical therapy for yours? I assume you have. Surgeons around here require it for a full year before they'll do surgery. Did you do that yet? It must be awful not to be able to look people in the eyes. I'm so sorry you're that bad off. How long has it been like that? You're not looking down in your profile pic.😔🙏

posted April 1
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What benefits will you get from stem cells? I’m sorta at a breaking point. Don’t want to keep looking at the floor so that is why I’m looking into the surgery

posted April 1

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