[lit-ideas] Re: Kyphoplasty?
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:16:26 +0000
www.oandpvillage.com/resources/backpain.htm
gives the various surgical options including kyphoplasty, which isn't
the only minimally-invasive option.
what about epidural or pain-blocking injections?
Friday, February 11, 2005, 6:43:50 PM, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
Jac> I know there are a number of various types of medical Doctors or people
with
Jac> relatives who are MD's on this list. I have a question for any of you
that
Jac> might be able to steer me in the right direction. In addition to having
Jac> recurrent colon cancer and all the attendant joys of chemo-therapy, my
Mother,
Jac> who is 63, had had excruciating back pain for months. First they were
Jac> concerned that it was cancer moving into her bones. CT scans cleared
that one up.
Jac> Then they told her she had severe osteo-arthritis. Another physician
nixed
Jac> that diagnosis. The most recent diagnosis (how is it possible for
something in
Jac> this day and age of medicine to be so undiagnosable??) is herniated discs.
Jac> Of course, they want to do surgery. She's absolutely terrified of and
Jac> opposed to surgery, but is desperate. A friend who works in a medical
records
Jac> dept. at a local hospital told me about a fairly recent procedure, called
Jac> "kyphoplasty" in which a glue-like cement-like substance is injected into
the places
Jac> beteen the discs. A search on Google for "kyphoplasty herniated discs"
Jac> turned up nothing helpful. On Medscape and Lancet there were a number of
Jac> articles purporting to discuss both things but in the articles I was able
to make
Jac> sense of (some of them are overwhelmingly full of anatomical and medical
Jac> jargon) the only use for kyphoplasty *seems* to be broken vertebrae. The
local
Jac> Doctors here in yahoo-town aren't helpful, particularly as the procedure
seems
Jac> to be something fairly new. Does anyone out there know anything about
this??
Jac> Julie Krueger
Jac> Trammadol isn't touching her pain .... something's gotta be done!
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