Lee Segal, MD, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is seeing recovery times of spine surgery improve over the years, reports Courier Post Online.
"We're trying to selectively fuse parts of the spine to preserve motion. Hospitalization now is often no more than four to five days. We get kids up and moving the next day," Dr. Segal told the Courier-Post.
In the past 30 years, scoliosis treatment has changed dramatically. Since the Harrington Rod System was used in the 1960s, " there have been many, many advances in the field of spinal instrumentation to allow for better outcomes that can be more safely done, that can achieve a better correction and that allow the spine to be fused in less segments so the extent of the fusion is smaller so the children have more mobility," Dr. Segal told the Courier-Post.
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