Maria Talks Back

29/09/2025

Happy anniversary, spondylolisthesis fusion!

"I've never seen one like that before." It took a minute to realize what the CT technician was referring to. "That's a Harrington rod ," I r...

21/08/2025

I have long maintained that our country is in an abusive relationship with the health insurance industry.

Bottom line: For-profit companies should not have the power to overrule doctors' advice and interfere with their care of their patients.

Insurance denied 18-year-old Nala White’s surgery for degenerative disc disease. After NBC News reached out, it was approved the next day.

19/01/2025

"On August 11, 2024, my protector, my hero, my Dad, passed away."

https://mariatalksback.blogspot.com/2025/01/rip-dad.html

02/11/2023

https://mariatalksback.blogspot.com/2023/11/remembering-grandpa.html

Forty years. It's been 40 years, but I remember it so vividly. I was a senior at Montclair State College, a commuter school. Grandpa had ...

14/03/2023

New post alert!!

My twisted sister Mary and I have discussed the risks of falling, When we were younger, we didn't understand why falling is more common—an...

01/06/2022

June is Scoliosis Awareness Month!

25/08/2021

How I wish the National Scoliosis Foundation existed when I was in a Milwaukee brace and, later, post-scoliosis surgery!

If you are able, please consider supporting this wonderful organization.

24/09/2020

I was raised to respect and trust the police. Always. But as reports (and video footage) involving “bad cops” have become widespread, I c...

14/02/2020

Wow

The Schroth Method is still rare in the United States, and only a few physical therapists use it in Kentucky.

28/07/2018

New post!

If you know anything about me, you know I've had a lot of experience being a patient. Too much. As I've gotten older, I've also become mor...

19/07/2018

Had to post, since the dateline is my hometown in NJ!

In my case, the curvature was not necessarily severe; it was not responding to brace treatment.

WEST ORANGE, N.J., July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Scoliosis, characterized by an abnormal curve of the spine, is seen most often in girls between the a...

18/06/2018

"Raeford’s platform going into the Miss North Carolina pageant is 'Beat the Curve: Raising Scoliosis Awareness.' ”

For the first time since 2008, Wilson County will be represented in the Miss North Carolina Pageant. The Miss Wilson Scholarship Pageant was resurrected last year and crowned a new Miss Wilson in …