- Jan 20, 2017
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Our daughter (12) started complaining about back pain (more like a twinge to be precise) when doing punch fronts last week. Thanks to Chalkbucket and what I have read here about back issues we took her to the doctor on Tuesday. The radiologist noted that she has spondylolysis on the left side of L5/S1.
We attended the spinal clinic today (we were referred by our medical aid) where we were told that there are no fractures or pars defects yet, but there are changes in L5. If not treated this will become a compression fracture (in effect then also spondylolistheses). It cannot be reversed, but the process can be halted.
A huge thank you therefore to this community - without it, we might have waited a bit longer before going to the doctor and who knows how far it would have progressed.
As an aside, according to the tests run by the clinic our DD has very strong back muscles and use them more than the other core muscles (abs, obliques etc) in the gym and in daily tasks. Her rehabilitation will therefore concentrate on correcting this.
We attended the spinal clinic today (we were referred by our medical aid) where we were told that there are no fractures or pars defects yet, but there are changes in L5. If not treated this will become a compression fracture (in effect then also spondylolistheses). It cannot be reversed, but the process can be halted.
A huge thank you therefore to this community - without it, we might have waited a bit longer before going to the doctor and who knows how far it would have progressed.
As an aside, according to the tests run by the clinic our DD has very strong back muscles and use them more than the other core muscles (abs, obliques etc) in the gym and in daily tasks. Her rehabilitation will therefore concentrate on correcting this.