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Hey,

I took a few days away from the computer - my son, who lives in PA

drove down to drop off his two kids for a two weeks stay.

You're welcome for the compliment - I've got the advantage of a BS in

zoology (Ms in another field), 15 years of working in the medical

field, 11 is social services, and 7 years studying lipo and TC.

That doctor in Miami - I don't know his name. All I remember that it

was a guy who lived in Texas that flew down for surgery, and had to

fly back post-op and was told not to be on his back for 6 months.

Kathy M investigated him, but didn't go down for an eval. She's away

from her computer right now. Any of the older members (in terms of

being on the list) remember this?

I've never seen anything he published. Once things settle down, I'll

try to find out more info for you.

>find this very interesting. do you feel that everyone retethers after

>surgery? i am not sure how i feel about that yet. right now, i feel

>that 99 % retether. susan.

Well, my nsg says that all will form some scar tissue, even went so

far as to research to see if ANYTHING new had come out to prevent it

for me - and I even, in the past, sent my MRIs up to Columbia for a

spinal tumor specialist and a pediatic nsg to look at.. And they said

the same thing - There is no procedure that will prevent the formation

of scar tissue, and the spinal cord will get stuck again. So - there

is that physical retether.

But - that doesn't necessarily mean that you will have tethered cord

syndrome back, or worse. You can have a physical tether and no

symptoms at all. If you're lucky, there will be only a little scar

tissue (depends on type of tether, length of surgery, any

complications, and

abilty to get healed before stressing the cord again which would rip

open healing tissue) and there is enough flexiblity from the release

that symptoms inprove, or at least stablized.

I didn't - but I was stable with my neuro damage from age 1 to 45.

The last 12 years have been a real roller coaster, and I had a few

good years post-op. (I'm one of those lipo persons, who tend to become

symptomatic again.)

Hope that helps!