Re: Discovery of Tethered Cord!

[Guest guest]

If I am not mistaken, when I was doing a Search through Pub Med for Tethered

Cord, I found out they actually knew about Tethered Cord in the 40's. I know

it was discovered before I was born.......1975. I just think the thing was

that it wasn't widely known about, and they didn't really know what to do

for it.

Me

Nebraska, USA

mymocha@...

They didn't even know what a tethered cord was in 1972.

[Guest guest]

Dear Brande,

That is interesting, that tethered spinal cord was known about in the 40's. I

was born in 1956, and until I had my MRI scans in 1990, no doctor had even

acknowledged that there could be anything wrong, because the X-Rays did not show

it. I had a hole in the bones, there were a lot of things that I could not do,

but was told, eventually, when I queried it, that the hole was too low, and

should not have been causing any problems. If the medics did know about tethered

spinal cords, I am sure that they did not have the technology to be able to

help. My neurosurgeon told me that if anyone had so much as put a needle into my

back, (e.g. myelogram), before he got there to release my cord, there would have

been nothing that he could have done.

So, in a way, the doctors back then could only do what they knew how to do.

Although it has been hard, I am thankful that I was able to wait until the

technology caught up with me. I am also glad that there is a lot more knowledge

now and that there is so much more that can be done today.

Best wishes,

[Guest guest]

Here are 2 Studies discussing Tethered Cord from the 1950's. Unfortunately,

there is no Abstract.

Restitution of continence in spina bifida; the tethered cord syndrome.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=1\

3402301 & dopt=Abstract

Urinary incontinence in myelomeningoceles due to a tethered spinal cord and

its surgical treatment.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=1\

3371477 & dopt=Abstract

Me

Nebraska, USA

mymocha@...