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Post by mom2noble on Jan 1, 2010 16:37:18 GMT -7
Hey all, my little man has only been an amputee since June this year. He already has 2 large bone spurs developing off of his tibia. The one you can feel right on his shin and i think it has grown continually for the last few months and i think it is pretty big already. The other one you can only see on an xray b/c it is on the backside of his tibia. Neither one seems to hurt him at all yet. He bone capping seems to be working, as the end of his bone is growing or notgrowing fine without spurs. From what I understand the pariostium that wraps the bone was disrupted either at the accident time or during amputation surgury. I also know that with Noble being so young the bone wants to grow, and it finds a weak spot and starts to "sprout". Another theory is that he was weight bearing too much. He is now in his second leg already to try and get less weight bearing on the end. I guess I just dont know what to expect. Do you have to get revisions? Noble's spurs dont seem to hurt him, but will they get painful? I am just looking for some info I guess, personal experiences as it were Thanks guys!
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Post by cherylm on Jan 2, 2010 18:51:08 GMT -7
I've been told that "if it doesn't hurt, don't fix it"... but I'm not sure if that's the same for a small child. Maybe someone else would have first-hand experience there.
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Post by allenuk on Jan 4, 2010 0:21:53 GMT -7
Holly - I don't think any of us thought of this angle when you first told us of Noble's problems. We thought that as he was so young, he'd do just fine, adapting to life with a prosthetic limb far easier than us older ones.
I think that conventional prosthetics could probably accommodate a small spur (as many of us here have bits of tib and fib that are not quite smoothly moulded, but I fear, and really hope there's another solution, that he might have to have surgery to remove these spurs if they get too big, because it sounds as if they could interfere with the 'suspension' system, i.e. he'll be putting his weight onto the spurs, rather than just his knee area and stump.
I would think it's a question for your prosthetist in the first instance, rather than your surgeons.
Do let us know when you find out what happens next. We are all rooting for you (and your little man).
Best wishes,
Allen, bka, London.
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