Sue, glad he is giving you some relief. I always had really good posture and fought to keep it during the yrs. that I was fusing. I fused pretty straight, although I was pulled forward a little, then I got thrown from the back of a lawn tractor and snapped my spine between C-6 and C7. The surgeon that put the halo on me had never seen me and lined it up where it looked like it would heal the best, my wife kept telling him I was angled way farther down than I had been, but he said that was the only position it would heal properly. Now I could be twins with Kevin. Apparently there was a lot of pent up stress in my spine and it went where it had been trying to for yrs.
Anyway to get back to the point, I had the sternum pain terribly while fusing, but not any rib pain to speak of, so I think posture has a lot to do with it.
J.R.
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