Sruli's blog

Wow, what an interesting experience at Hadassah Har Hatzofim yesterday. As I reported earlier, we are trying to get Akiva accepted into the clinical trial of a new kind of back brace for his scoliosis. Yesterday we went through the beginnning stages of the process. I'm told Akiva will need a CT scan of two portions of the spine so as to measure the exact angle of the rotation of the apex. This is milder than the usual CT scan for this kind of thing, because it only focuses on two small spots, so he gets exposed to less radiation. He'll also need a similar scan at the end of the program for documentation purposes. One of the many things we were told by the doctor in charge of the program was that if Akiva's angle gets even 5% worse, we get booted from the program and he has to start wearing a conventional brace. Even though it's not uncommon for rotation to increase by 5% on even a conventional brace, they're not taking any chances. Fitting the brace The guy in ...