![]() ![]() ![]() MD is still letting her do swim, but no gymnastics or bending of her back. Everyone is different and hopefully your dd will heal quickly. We go back to the MD on friday and then make some decisions. The doctor thought she would heal fine, however, she has not healed and the vertebrae has actually moved slightly out of alignment (spondylolythesis) which she didn't have to start with. She wore a brace 23hrs a day for 3 months. HI, my DD who was also 7 at the time of diagnosis has a stress fracture at L5 her is on both sides of the pars which is worse than just having it on one side. the basic thing he felt was that it came from repetitions and the torque of a lot of the moves at the upper levels. I would definitely seek out a Sports Medicine Doc (we were fortunate to be in a major medical center and get a doctor who had a lot of experience with gymnasts and was even married to a former collegiate gymnast so he knew exactly what was happening). She healed and (knock on wood) it has been fine but it's not something to fool around with. she didn't do anything but condition for 3 months and I curtailed her schedule to only 4 days a week of that. I am shocked to hear that a gymnast so young (and not really into the competitive track yet) has this.my daughter also had this but she was a 4th year Level 10 and had been doing gymnastics for 10 years! As gympumpkin said, it is quite tricky to diagnose.my daughter had the Xray and then the CT scan but it wasn't conclusive until she had a bone scan with contrast done.and after that she was sidelined for 12 weeks and she was in a back brace (which she thought helped a lot). Make sure that shoulder stretches are part of her rehab. I am not a doctor and have no medical background at all, but what I learned from my daughter's back injury is that lack of shouder flexibility is the main cause of back injuries. All I am suggesting is a second opinion.) (Please don't think that I am giving medical advice. I would also consider a second opinion on the brace, because the orthopedist we saw (not the spine specialist) told us that a brace is often not necessary. If you have had the MRI/CAT scan with slices, your diagnosis is probably solid. So even if you have seen a specialist, a second opinion is really a good idea. Seeing it in a 7 year old is very unusual. So I guess this is a long way of saying that it can be a very tricky injury to accurately diagnosis.Īccording to the orthopedists we saw, spondylolysis is pretty much a function of repetition over time. There was only one imaging place that he thought could do it accurately. (I live in a very large city but still it was surprising to me that this injury was so common.) The spine specialist did not see the "collar" but because he respected the other ortho he recommended either an MRI or CAT scan (sorry I am always confusing the two) which involved imaging of very fine slices of the spine. He sent us to a pediatric spine specialist who has a sub-speciality of gymnasts with spine problems such as spondylolysis. He thought he saw the Scottie dog collar on the L-5 that is the hallmark of spondylolysis. The orthopedist compared her recent x-ray to one taken when she was 2 years old and decided that her L-5 looked different in the recent x-ray. He still did not see a fracture but referred us to a sports medicine specialist who in turn referred us to a pediatric orthopedist. When she did not improve in two weeks, she went back to the pediatrician. ![]() Her pediatrician thought it might be spondylolysis and sent her for an x-ray. About a year ago, my then 7 year old daughter experienced quite a bit of pain in her lower back after a class that involved many bridges, bridge walks, bridge kick overs and what you call it when a gymnast bends back into a bridge from a standing position and then stands back up. I just want to concur that a second opinion is probably a very good idea. ![]()
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