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If you imagine a hardcover book opening and closing to move across the floor then you'll have a pretty good idea of what that travesty would look like.

It certainly does! I like to describe it as having "permanent perfect posture." If you sit up in your chair and straighten your back as best you can, that's about what I'm like all of the time.

If I bend over (at the waist) my back stays perfectly straight. That's what the two titanium rods in there do! The funny thing is, you always imagine that you bend your back often but in reality you usually do it at the hips.

It took a few years to figure out how to reposition myself if I had to do something like grab something from underneath my bed, but now it's not even something I ever notice.

There is a really great little bonus from the surgery too: When I'm sitting in an uncomfortable chair (think back to those little blue ones with the three vertical slots) I can just sit at the edge, lean back and be totally comfortable! The rods support me entirely!

Easy, no more back pain. My curve had been so bad for so long that I didn't really think about what it was like to not have a sore back. My muscles had to do so much extra work CONSTANTLY to try to correct my curve that there wasn't a day I didn't wake up and have to massage knots out of my back.

Also, I grew 2.5 inches during the surgery, so for a 17 year old that was pretty F'in sweet.

Again, "reduced mobility" is really not how I would describe it at all.

Try this. Go over to a wall and press your back up against it like you're getting your height measured. Now thrust your hips out. See? Not really a problem!

I can't think of a single time where it's been an obstacle or even something that I thought about in the bedroom.

Thrust on brother http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrwu2akilk1qa51o3o1_250.gif