Hey all,

I need some support and have some questions answered about my spinal fusion. I was the lucky receipeant of an L1 burst fracture just after Christmas 2003 during a snowmobile accident. I had a fusion from my T12 to my L2. I walk fine and have a great full life, but I have to share it with pain everyday. I have been in more pain than normal lately, and went to the clinic yesterday. I had a new x-ray which I have not had one fore over two years now, and I found out today that I have some retropulsion of the posterior body of L1. I have been trying to find information about this, and prehaps this is why the pain is worse than it normally is. Can anyone tell me about this and what to expect? (I am sorry as I am a terrible speller also, so please bare with me

I really don't know anything about this, but you can goolge it in or here's a site that decribes it. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/545253_4


________e-Type Fractures of the Thoracolumbar Spine: Imaging Analysis
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Discussion
Chance[1] described a unique hyperflexion injury of the lumbar spine resulting in a "horizontal splitting of the spine and neural arch" without "...any cord damage." Seventeen years later, Howland et al.,[5] unaware of Chance's earlier report, presented a similar case report of a "splitting apart" transverse fracture of a lumbar vertebra.


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