Feeling Flat - where to next?

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Belle had her 6th cast applied on Friday and I just spoke with our surgeon this

morning and there is again no improvement. We started with an upper thoracic

curve of 73 degrees last December and we have been holding at early 50's since

the first cast was applied.

He said there is no improvement in rotation and the rib shape is now showing

signs of compression and due to the worst part of the curve sitting at her

shoulder blades, they can only push so hard there.

There is the suggestion it is time to brace after the next cast for the

remainder of summer to prevent rib deformity. He is not fixed on this option.

I'm really concerned given we are still in the 50's that we'll regress back to

where we started if not worse in a brace. Yet, I don't want my poor darling to

have compressed ribs.

What to do?

Katrina