Thursday, April 7, 2011
Hip Dysplasia
We bought tickets to go to the Monster Jam in Baltimore for June 4th, which will be only 4 weeks post-op. Well Destinee is upset because she cannot go..:( she swears she will be ok by then, and I cannot convince her other wise so I have to just let her find out on her own..So, instead, she has been begging me to take her to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. and I have decided to take her tomorrow :) She is such a Humanatarian!! She learned about the Holocaust in seventh grade and it touched her in such a huge way!! So, since her and I won't be able to make it to Monster Jam, this will have to be second best :)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
History
Hello,
I thought I would create this blog because I was unable to find any useful information on teenagers going through Hip Dysplasia Osteotomy surgery. I am new at blogging so please bear with me on this journey.
I will start by giving you some background information. Destinee was born with DDH (Hip Dysplasia). One hip was totally out of the hip socket and the other was partial. At two days old she was placed in a Pavlik Harness. She had to wear it for 6 weeks straight and it was never allowed to be removed. After the six weeks, she was placed in triple diapers for another 8 weeks.
All was great until around age 13 I started noticing her gait looked odd. It is hard to explain but something about the way she walked didn't look right. She continued on as a normal teenager, joined softball, and started on an All-Star cheerleading team. Within a year she started complaining of hip pain. So, I took her to an orthopedic doctor. He passed it off as injury from cheer practice, threw some pills at her and sent her on her way.
Well the pain continued until this past year (she is now 16) where she has pain after every cheer practice, then it progressed to painful hips after sitting at school all day long. I decided to take her back to an ortho doc, but went to A.I. Dupont in Delaware.
The first test was an x-ray, where her doctor noticed the right hip was mis-placed once again. So he ordered to have an arthroscope MRI on both hips. This was a regular MRI, but with a needle placed directly into the hip socket which would highlight the hips better.
We were told that when she hit puberty, the hips shifted and they must not have been completely stable. She now needs surgery to correct the dysplasia. The doctor says she needs an osteotomy of either the hip bone or the femur bone, and then will have plates and screws placed. If we do nothing, within 4 years she would need a total hip replacement, and the pain will only get worse.
So this blog, I hope, will help other parents out there who have questions or are going through the same thing, or even better if you have gone through it with your teenager, help me!!! Her surgery is scheduled for May 2nd, and I am waiting for all the details from his office. I will post as I get updates.
I thought I would create this blog because I was unable to find any useful information on teenagers going through Hip Dysplasia Osteotomy surgery. I am new at blogging so please bear with me on this journey.
I will start by giving you some background information. Destinee was born with DDH (Hip Dysplasia). One hip was totally out of the hip socket and the other was partial. At two days old she was placed in a Pavlik Harness. She had to wear it for 6 weeks straight and it was never allowed to be removed. After the six weeks, she was placed in triple diapers for another 8 weeks.
All was great until around age 13 I started noticing her gait looked odd. It is hard to explain but something about the way she walked didn't look right. She continued on as a normal teenager, joined softball, and started on an All-Star cheerleading team. Within a year she started complaining of hip pain. So, I took her to an orthopedic doctor. He passed it off as injury from cheer practice, threw some pills at her and sent her on her way.
Well the pain continued until this past year (she is now 16) where she has pain after every cheer practice, then it progressed to painful hips after sitting at school all day long. I decided to take her back to an ortho doc, but went to A.I. Dupont in Delaware.
The first test was an x-ray, where her doctor noticed the right hip was mis-placed once again. So he ordered to have an arthroscope MRI on both hips. This was a regular MRI, but with a needle placed directly into the hip socket which would highlight the hips better.
We were told that when she hit puberty, the hips shifted and they must not have been completely stable. She now needs surgery to correct the dysplasia. The doctor says she needs an osteotomy of either the hip bone or the femur bone, and then will have plates and screws placed. If we do nothing, within 4 years she would need a total hip replacement, and the pain will only get worse.
So this blog, I hope, will help other parents out there who have questions or are going through the same thing, or even better if you have gone through it with your teenager, help me!!! Her surgery is scheduled for May 2nd, and I am waiting for all the details from his office. I will post as I get updates.
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