Then, in the 1950s, came a new standard of care. The Harrington rod was a single rod, with a hook at the top and a hook at the bottom, that held the spine in place for fusion. It was a huge ...

From the early 1960s to the late 1990s, the condition was treated surgically by implanting special contoured metal rods known as “Harrington rods” along ... who underwent spinal fusion at the Hospital ...

Spinal fusion is basically a procedure where doctors ... The modern surgery is superior to the Harrington rods surgery because it allows the spine to be corrected in a much more natural ...

Extreme cases of scoliosis often require fusion of the spinal vertebrae ... lives during treatment. Key to Harrington’s method is a slender, stainless-steel rod that resembles a soda straw ...

[81] The complications may include rod breakage, migrated anchors, infection, wound breakage and neurological deficit requiring implant removal. Definitive spinal fusion is performed to stop ...

Spinal fusion showed more cephalad lowest instrumented vertebrae selections vs. magnetically controlled growing rods. A more varied and even distribution of lowest instrumented vertebrae was seen ...

During a spinal fusion, the surgeon places bone or bone-like material into the space between two spinal vertebrae, metal plates, screws, and rods can be used to hold the vertebrae together ...

Spinal fusion is surgery to join two or more vertebrae ... They can use screws, rods, or pieces of bone (called a graft) from another part of your body to connect the disks and keep them from ...

Spinal fusion is basically a procedure where doctors ... The modern surgery is superior to the Harrington rods surgery because it allows the spine to be corrected in a much more natural ...