The impact of scoliosis surgery on life mainly refers to the complications after surgery, which are mainly categorized into complications during surgery and long-term complications.
1. Complications during surgery: the number or severity of complications after surgery for scoliosis is usually directly related to the severity of scoliosis. Patients with mild scoliosis seldom have serious complications, usually only pain in the incision area, scarring and so on; patients with severe scoliosis usually have a longer surgical segment, so incision infections, liquefaction of incision, decubitus ulcers, lower extremity deep vein thrombosis and so on may occur after surgery. etc.
2. Long-term complications: Long-term complications mainly come from two aspects, the first is that the internal fixation in the operation may loosen or break in rehabilitation training or daily activities, which may cause local pain and swelling in mild cases; in serious cases, it may lead to spinal instability and require a second operation to repair; secondly, it may lead to spinal cord injury, which may cause sensory and motor anomalies below the level of the injury, and in serious cases, it may even lead to paraplegia. Secondly, spinal cord damage may occur, causing sensory and motor abnormalities below the injury level, and even paraplegia in severe cases.
After scoliosis surgery, if you have severe pain at the incision, numbness and weakness of both lower limbs, etc., you need timely follow-up.