Posted on 09/11/2023 6:52:52 PM PDT by grundle
In total, they visited 17 different doctors over three years. But Alex still had no diagnosis that explained all his symptoms. An exhausted and frustrated Courtney signed up for ChatGPT and began entering his medical information, hoping to find a diagnosis.
“I went line by line of everything that was in his (MRI notes) and plugged it into ChatGPT,” she says. “I put the note in there about ... how he wouldn’t sit crisscross applesauce. To me, that was a huge trigger (that) a structural thing could be wrong.”
She eventually found tethered cord syndrome and joined a Facebook group for families of children with it. Their stories sounded like Alex's. She scheduled an appointment with a new neurosurgeon and told her she suspected Alex had tethered cord syndrome. The doctor looked at his MRI images and knew exactly what was wrong with Alex.
“She said point blank, ‘Here’s occula spinal bifida, and here’s where the spine is tethered,” Courtney says.
Tethered cord syndrome occurs when the tissue in the spinal cord forms attachments that limit movement of the spinal cord, causing it to stretch abnormally, according to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
With tethered cord syndrome, “the spinal cord is stuck to something. It could be a tumor in the spinal canal. It could be a bump on a spike of bones. It could just be too much fat at the end of the spinal cord,” Dr. Holly Gilmer, a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Michigan Head & Spine Institute, who treated Alex, tells TODAY.com. "The abnormality can’t elongate ... and it pulls.”
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In preschools for at least 25 years.
They could have just said “Cross-Legged”.
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lol They could have also just said “lotus position” or “tailor’s sit” or “padmasana” (bet I mis-spelled that one) or a few dozen other things. The story is not childish colloquialisms; the tale to tell here concerns a bunch of white-coated thespians who, more and more, matter less and less.
I just went down a short bunny hole to find out for myself: I learned something absolutely useless.
Too fluffy to post. Search and you will be enlightened.
Not to adults they shouldn’t.
What do you call a guy who graduated last in his class at medical school?
Doctor.
Before everything got so politically correct we called it Indian Style.
Bkmk
I NEVER heard this either, WTH??
Agree, but I recognize the language after being around children a lot.
White libtard women who have been told that Indians (could apply to either AmerIndians or Asian Indians) will be offended by the term "Indian style" which of course neither kind would be.
The PC alternative to sitting Indian Style.
nice timing (#33)
Thank you much, Paleface!
haha...that struck me too....
Why do people say crisscross applesauce?
“Criss-cross applesauce” means sitting cross-legged on the floor. It’s a nursery or primary schoolchildren’s way to describing that.
>>They could have just said “Cross-Legged”.
Exactly. Why say anything else other than meaning what you want to say?
lol, Tonto
“Already, AI is far superior at reading radiological charts that human technicians are and will likely replace these technicians.”
Technicians don’t read radiological charts. That’s a doctors job.
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