Spondylolisthesis – “Slippage of the Spine” Our son, James, has suffered from lower back pain throughout most of his 20s. It was misdiagnosed as just an injured disc, until a specialist looked more closely at the x-rays and saw that his next-to-lowest vertebrae was fractured and had slid forward, causing severe pain with nearly any…
Category: Family
When a Spinal Cord Injury changes your life
A family member’s perspective… (I plan to write about this subject from time to time; here is the background)… My son-in-law Kirk became paralyzed from the neck (shoulders) down at the age of 29, after a diving accident in Lake Minnetonka on a sunny August afternoon. It was devastating, to say the least. He and…