A better way to cure scoliosis is being tested

Surgery performed by a Halifax spinal surgeon indicates that this intervention will significantly alter the traditional treatment of scoliosis. A teenage girl traveled from Ontario to undergo this surgery, and she says she has never felt so good for a long time.

She's called Jessica Robb from Westover and she's 14 years old. is one of six patients to get this revolutionary surgery. Weeks after the surgery, she improved day by day.

She says nine months ago the surgery that made her participation in sports possible "I felt a little more upright. I was still suffering a little after, but I felt much better than before.

The only institution in North America that performs such an operation (the ApiFix procedure) is the IWK Hospital in Halifax. Since then, his results have been overseen by many surgeons in North America.

At the age of seven, Jessica had already been diagnosed with scoliosis, which resulted in a curvature of the spine often occurring just before puberty. squirt. Since then, her treatment consisted of the use of a splint for 20 hours a day, but she did not prevent her spine from bending to 50%.

Her mother, Tracy Robb says, "Her lungs were constricted by her ribcage. She mentioned that her daughter's range of activities was restricted "All the things she liked to do, she was not able to do, she was also in pain."

His previous doctors have suggested the most invasive procedure, fusion therapy which involves the insertion of 15 and 20 screws to fuse rods to the spine.

However, Tracy Robb has not stopped believing After a period of research, she decided to try ApiFix in Nova Scotia

. After being treated by Dr. Ron El-Hawary, Jessica says she can now breathe without relying on her pumps. She is also the happiest to stop wearing her corset.

"I have no more pain, which is really good."