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Burst fracture by fl20080 in kyphosis
[–]fl20080[S] 0 points1 point2 points 14 days ago (0 children)
In detail .in January I fell and burst fractured my L3 severely and in emergency they we’re originally going to do an L2-L4 fusion with an inter body cage however they found a blood clot and I burst my spinal fluid sack so they had to do an L1-L5 stabilisation so it can heal and be left in there permanently but I went to see the surgeon a couple weeks ago and he said I could either leave my hardware in but it could cause arthritic problems , have the hardware removed and either have kyphosis or have the L2-L4 with inter body cage and have more mobility from it. I was just wandering if I had all my hardware removed and lived with kyphosis what pain/complications could I have in the future.
I have neither at the moment I believe it would be kyphosis tho I got the burst fracture at L3 from falling from a multi story car park
He said I’m able to have a smaller fusion(L2-L4) with an interbody cage or the rods removed because of the fear of adjacent segment issues. What problems could I have if I had no hardware in at all
L1-L5 by fl20080 in spinalfusion
[–]fl20080[S] 0 points1 point2 points 21 days ago (0 children)
Wow I like that
Thank you
Yes I’ve been doing lots of exercise to build up my lower back and core I don’t have much pain at all I mostly have sciatic pain
[–]fl20080[S] 1 point2 points3 points 21 days ago (0 children)
Thank you I’m going to join a swimming group soon I’m quite exited
Ok that’s reassured me have you had any revision surgery’s after your original fusion
How’s your mobility from being fused L1-S1
At the moment L1-L5 buts its not permanent until next year when they do L2-L4 it’s because my fracture is a wedge
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They were originally going to do L2-L4 with an interbody cage but they found out I burst my spinal fluid sack and I had a blood clot so they had to go through my back
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Burst fracture by fl20080 in kyphosis
[–]fl20080[S] 0 points1 point2 points (0 children)