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our daughter is 4 but will be 5 by the time she has osteotomy. she is lbpi. i wolud love to hear form parents about the befores and the afters of this procedure. are you glad u had it done or not? thanks so much nikki

is it the humeral or the forearm osteotomy? My son has had both. He is almost 11.

My son had a forearm osteotomy when he was seven. It was the easiest and least painful of all his surgeries. The only time he complained of discomfort was in the recovery room and after four months the pin started poking him in the wrist. The surgery sounds much a lot worse than it actually is.

she will be having the humeral ost.

she will be having the humeral ost.

the osteotomy wasn't very painful for my son, the cast was just like any broken arm cast. He did OT after cast came off for rehab, arm was just weak after, had to build back up. He did have some improvement in arm position, although not as good as was expected.(Broke wrist 1 week after cast came off, so don't know if that affected things.) Had forearm the next year...now getting ready to schedule Triangle Tilt. The shoulder is the problem for him, still.

Is your child supinated or pronated? Ours is pronated.

i'm not good w/ all the terms sometime but her arm hangs turned outward w/ palm up but she can turn palm over a little. who did ost. for your son? if u had to do over, would u chose to do ost? cutting the bone seems so scary to me but i can see where she would benifit from more midline[ maybe button pants w/ 2 hands, doggy paddling, driving,maybe carry arm differe nt and much more.our c5 avulised, c6 ruptuered,c7 stretched. how about yall?

i'm not good w/ all the terms sometime but her arm hangs turned outward w/ palm up but she can turn palm over a little. who did ost. for your son? if u had to do over, would u chose to do ost? cutting the bone seems so scary to me but i can see where she would benifit from more midline[ maybe button pants w/ 2 hands, doggy paddling, driving,maybe carry arm differe nt and much more.our c5 avulised, c6 ruptuered,c7 stretched. how about yall?

the osteotomies are by the easiest he has had. c5-ruptured, c6-ruptured, c7-avulsed and c8 stretched. feel free to email me privately and I will give more opinion on the osteotomies. Dr Davino did them, he is a wonderful doctor.

supinated is palm up, pronated is palm down. we were trying to get to nuetral(hand at side of leg at rest)