Famous People with Scoliosis

“I had a back brace [for scoliosis] but this kid in my class [at the United Nations high school] had been a child solider in Sierra Leone, so I felt lucky.  Plus, I was taught never to dwell on it.  The feeling was, if you’ve got your arms and your legs and your health, then you can figure everything else out.” -Elettra Wiedemann  (model)

Elizabeth Taylor told America's W magazine: "I was born with scoliosis, but it has finally caught up with me. My body's a real mess. If you look at it in the mirror, it's just completely convex and concave. I've become one of those poor little women who's bent sideways. -askmen.com



 

Sarrah Michelle Gellar (famous for her role in Buffy the Vampire SLayer)

 

Most famous for her role in "Ugly Betty," Rebecca Romijn has also appeared in several X-men movies, as well as an episode of "Friends." In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, she said:

"Everyone knows what it feels like to feel different from everyone else. When I was thirteen I was diagnosed with scoliosis and I shot up like six inches over the next four or five years and my body was just in so much pain and nobody told me that exercise would have helped that. I mean, I was like, in fact that was why I became a theatre geek, because I stayed away from sports all together, cause I was so self conscious and in so much physical pain from my body and now I do Pilates, which actually helped tremendously with scoliosis because scoliosis is something that is always there." -LOVELYish

inspiration : LOVELYish

Types of Scoliosis

There are four categories of scoliosis:
Idiopathic Scoliosis:
This is the most common type of scoliosis, and constitutes 80% of the cases of scoliosis. There is no know cause of idiopathic scoliosis.
It is subdivided into 3 categories:
1)Infantile Scoliosis: Birth to 3 years old
2)Juvenile Scoliosis: 3 - 10 years old
3)Adolescent Scoliosis: 10 years old to skeletal maturity

Congenital Scoliosis:
This is a rare type of scoliosis. It is often due to failures of formation or segmentation of the spine. People with congenital scoliosis will develop lateral spinal curves in infancy.

Neuromuscular Scoliosis:
In this type of scoliosis, a lateral curvature of the spine occurs due to muscular weakness or neurological disorders.

Degenerative Scoliosis:
Degenerative scoliosis occurs in adults and is due to degeneration of the spine that occurs with aging.

http://physicaltherapy.about.com/od/pediatricphysicaltherapy/ss/Scoliosis_2.htm

Menghitung Sudut Cobb

To use the Cobb method of measuring the degree of scoliosis, choose the most tilted vertebrae above and below the apex of the curve. The angle between intersecting lines drawn perpendicular to the top of the top vertebrae and the bottom of the bottom vertebrae is the Cobb angle.
place I found the image : http://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0501/p1817.html


Sudut Cobb digunakan untuk menetapkan derajat kurvatura skoilotik pada foto AP. Sebutan end vertebra dipilih dari vertebra terbesar dari garis horisontal di atas apeks kurvatura dan vertebra termiring dari garis horizontal dibagian bawah apeks kurvatura. Satu garis tangensial diatas end plate dari upper end vertebra dan garis tangensial yang kedua dibawah end plate dari lower end vertebra. Garis tegak lurus memperlihatkan adanya hubungan satu sama lain. Sudut yang memotong garis tegak lurus tersebut sebagai sudut Cobb yang normalnya 0 derajat. Metode Cobb diadopsi oleh Scoliosis Research Society untuk mengukur dan menggambarkan kurva skoliosis. Metode Cobb juga digunakan untuk mengukur kifosis dan lordosis pada foto lateral.
-Rasjad Chairuddin (2003) Pengantar Ilmu Bedah Ortopedi Edisi Ke II hal 75

Nah sudut Cobb ini gunanya buat apa yah? Katanya dr. Rahyussalim, SpOT, K-Spine sudut Cobb ini umumnya digunakan untuk mengambil keputusan terhadap teknik terapi operasi apa tidak, traksi atau tidak, brace, dan kalau diputuskan operasi teknik operasi mana yang digunakan. Demikian pula data mengenai sudut itu dapat pula dijadikan bahan evaluasi mengenai progresifitas penambahan sudut kelengkungan tulang belakang.

Sudut Cobb tulang belakang saya 'masih' 30 derajat, jadi masih diobservasi dulu, ga perlu tindakan apa-apa, sampai bertemu tahun depan doc!

Scoliosis Definition

image source : http://www.coloradospineinstitute.com/subject.php?pn=cond-idiopathic-scoliosis9

Scoliosis is a medical condition in which a person's spine is curved from side to side, shaped like an "s" or "c", and the spine may also be rotated.

Scoliosis is divided into three categories: congenital, idiopathic and neuromuscular. Congenital scoliosis indicates the patient was born with the curvature of the spine and is caused by a failure of the vertebrae to individually form or separate from each other. Neuromuscular scoliosis is caused by a wide variety of disorders which include cerebral palsy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and myelomeningocele (also known as spina bifi da). Each of these categories is very different and requires different treatment interventions than adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
Idiopathic means the identifying cause of the disease/disorder is unknown. Research into the cause has targeted multiple areas and exemplifi es the complex nature of this disorder. The current consensus is that it is a multifactorial process that includes altered melatonin production, connective tissue disorder, skeletal muscle abnormalities, contractile protein dysfunction or a nerve function problem.

Spine Doctors

My dearest husband take an urgent leave today, he did some research about spine doctors in Jakarta, here is the result, thanks to him that I could post this information in this blog. I have made two appointments for tomorrow and next week with two different spine doctors, I have a strong feeling that my scoliosis is already need a surgery treatment, I think it's already more than 40 degrees, I don't know what is my next plan if surgery is the only way to give me back my normal activities and to reduce the pain.

Dokter Spesialis Spine:
DR. dr. Luthfi Gatam, SpOT.,FICS.,Spine Surgeon (K)
• Ramsay Spine Center, RS Premier Bintaro
(021) 7455 500 / 600 ext. 2511 / 2512
atau 021 999 22 546 dengan Donna / Susilo

• Mitra Kemayoran
Jl. HBR Motik (Landas Pacu Timur), Kemayoran, Jakarta 10630
Telp : +62 – 21 654 5555, 654 5888 Fax : +62 -21 654 5959

• Jakarta Spine and Orthopedic Surgery Centre, RS Pondok Indah
Jl. Metro Duta Kav. UE, Jakarta Selatan
Telp.: 021-7692252 ext 5214 (Hani)
Fax.: 021-7502324

dr. Rahyussalim, SpOT, K-Spine
• RSCM Kencana
Call center (24 hours) 021-39857799
Gd. RSCM Kencana. Jl. Diponegoro No. 71, Lantai. 4. Jakarta Pusat. 10430.

• RS Pusat Pertamina (Selasa & Jumat pukul 15.00 sd 18.00 dan Sabtu pukul 10.00 sd 16.00)

dr.Rizal Pohan SpOT(K)SPINE
• RS Mayapada

• RS Siloam
Siloam Hospitals Lippo Village
Jl. Siloam No. 6, Lippo Karawaci 1600, Tangerang 15811, Indonesia
Main Switch Phone Number: +62 21 546 0055
General enquiry e-mail address: info@siloamhospitals.com

dr. Arsanto Triwidodo SpOT,FICS,K-Spine,MHKes
• Jakarta Spine and Orthopedic Surgery Centre, RS Pondok Indah (see above)
Jl. Metro Duta Kav. UE, Jakarta Selatan
Telp.: 021-7657525 ext. 1300, Direct-Line : 021-7500157
Fax.: 021-7502324

• RS Permata Cibubur

Prof. Dr. dr. Subroto Sapardan,Sp.OT
• Jakarta Spine and Orthopedic Surgery Centre, RS Pondok Indah (see above)
Jl. Metro Duta Kav. UE, Jakarta Selatan
Telp.: 021-7657525 ext. 1300, Direct-Line : 021-7500157
Fax.: 021-7502324

dr. Husodo Dewo Adi, SpOT, K-Spine
• RS Halmahera Bandung

• RS Advent Bandung

• RS Santosa Bandung
(022) 4248 333 ext 2000
(022) 4248 333 ext 2002

dr. R. Suhana, SpOT, K-Spine

Yoga and Scoliosis

My mother is a doctor, I am a doctor also, Why it took me 26yrs to find out that I have deformity in my spine? I don't know, I don't want to blame anybody, even God, I know this happened because of a reason, or maybe reasons. I just need to find out what it is.

My husband and I spent a lot of time to find out scoliosis' treatment, then we found out about Ann Baros. She is a yoga teacher with over 30 years experience. She has led workshops both domestically in California and Colorado, and internationally in Singapore, Jamaica, Greece, Mexico, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, as well as as her beloved Bali, which has become her second home and remains where her heart is always. Ann first studied with BKS Iyengar in India in 1976 who personally guided her into curing her own scoliosis. I sent her an e-mail asking if she could give me some informations about practicing Yoga to deal with my scoliosis.

I do Yoga with my husband a couple months ago @JakartadoYoga, an instructor, a local one, I forgot her name, she told me that I have scoliosis, but I didn't believe her. Well... even she whisphered it but another class member could heard it. Was it embarassing? Yes, I thought so. That's why I thought she was wrong, but she isn't. Now I have an x-ray that proves that Yoga instructor was right!

I'm looking for a private Iyengar Yoga instructor now, I prefer a female one, I haven't get any information yet.



Up above is my first x-ray in my life. I went for a radiology test because my ECG shown a LVH result, the x-ray pic conform it, I have Cardiomegaly and another big surprise, a thoracal spine (dextro convex) scoliosis.