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@sherrym25

@vikkitennis I love that the Mayo Clinic uses a team approach of an orthopedic surgeon and a neurosurgeon! It gives me a lot of comfort knowing that both aspects of my spine are being addressed during surgery.
I wonder if your surgeons will want to fuse more vertebrae in the future to stop the curve progression. Even as active as I am, my surgeon said age and gravity will make my curve worsen as time goes by.
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Sherry and others,
Yes, age and gravity. I think we all have heard that. I still do back exercises prescribed years ago to hopefully strengthen the back muscles to prevent more curvature. Yet, curvature still progresses, but my orthopedic doctor likes to tell me that but for the exercises, I would have had a total back fusion by now.
Peter