femoral anteversion...experiences?

[taximomfor4]

I need to know if anyone's dealt with this in their child. My son is at the age we had to go back to the orthopedic surgeon (8 yrs old). I have put it off for months already, dreading making choices. I am pretty sure he's going to want to go ahead and do surgery. It's not a simple, minor thing.

Anyone have any experiences to share (either choosing the surgery or choosing not to do it)? My son is 8.5 now, if that helps any.

 

[minkydog]

I'm not exactly sure what femoral anteversion is, but I know those feelings. My oldest son had a severe sunken chest which by age 5 had compressed his heart & lungs so much that one lobe of lung collapsed. He had to have a major reconstruction of the chest--not easy on any of us. But he made it through just fine and has few bad memories of it (lots of drugs. )

My thoughts & prayers go to you. Some days it just sucks to be the parent.

 

[taximomfor4]

Femoral anteversion is one reason for in-toeing. Most of the time it corrects itself, but in really severe cases it may not. The surgery is reserved for the severe cases, and ONLY on older children. My son's ortho surg saw him and xrayed him at age 4, and found this cause (it's intoeing from the hip, more or less). The surgery involves the surgeon intentionally breaking the leg bones, and putting them back together turned a bit (to a more normal position). It's a big deal.

I don't know that I want to do this, and have put off the 8 yr appt because of it. But DS trips over his own foot sometimes, it's turned in so much. Makes baseball tricky, you know? It doesn't seem to hurt him when he runs, but he does this rolling, strange hip-turning thing with every step he runs especially on the one leg. It LOOKS painful.

Anyway, thanks for your support! Between this and the long-delayed appt for DD9 with the ENT (mouth breather, too-large adenoids) for tonsil/adenoid removal, I am pretty stressed. I am such a conservative when it comes to medical treatments, surgery goes against every fiber in me!

 

[bzzymom]

DS is 5th grade/10 has a classmate/friend who had a big orthopedic surgery when he was in 3rd grade, and this year is his first year back to normal with PE. I don't know what his problem was, but I know they had to break bones and do something. I'll try to find out if it is the same thing or not.