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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I had to look it up too. It mentioned that the ‘term’ was started sometimes during the 90s..
It matches a LOT of the millennial’s personalities and attitudes, lol.
Only to soft headed idiots.
Crisscross applesauce?
The only time I’ve ever heard the term was on American Dad, where it was Roger the alien’s signature move in basketball. Never heard sitting cross-legged called that.
Sure. They're called radiologists. I would suggest avoiding entering that field of medicine unless you want to find yourself unemployable.
I guess 'feather or dot' is out now?
What is sitting “crisscross applesauce”?
Mommies, preschool and kindergarten teachers. Seems weird but I have been to many trainings that just teach rhymes and little ditties to train small children to do things.
Compliance disguised as fun and games. By 2nd grade the velvet gloves are off and teachers are crankier.
From a children’s song. Sitting cross legged on the floor
I guess the “applesauce” threw me...
Best answer.
It all depends.
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