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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back injury happened when he was surfing in Hawaii.

Surgery didn’t go great.

Moved to Japan.

His contact with family stopped about a year ago. Recently the family reached out to his friends from high school asking if they had info on him.

So he’s been pretty aloof for awhile. This checks out with his IG tagged photos as there were a lot of posts from family through 2023, none recently.[/quote]

How does a young man get so injured while surfing? Blasted by a nasty wave or crashing into rocks?[/quote]

Getting pulled under and tumbled by a wave is the equivalent of a human washing machine. Violent and puts lots of strains on the muscles. He could have crashed on underwater rock formations or reefs - very common in Hawaii.

Also there's tons of head injuries, concussions, and likely CTE associated with surfing. Why do you think surfers are kinda dopey? Repetitive head crashes and getting your head bounced around by the waves. [/quote]
+1 My DH broke his collarbone like this. He’s lucky it wasn’t his back or his neck.[/quote]

Someone on r/medicine said Grade 2 spondylolisthesis--where a vertebra is out of place by 25% to 50%, I don't know where the details have come from but mentioning fusion and the guy perhaps having been denied revision or had surgery and insurance refused to pay for it. In another thread a different doctor described a patient who needed spine surgery, fought hard for authorization, then they had to move it up 2 days for medical reasons and it was denied because it wasn't in the window.

My son was a fusion candidate but waited 9 months to change insurance and another 5 to get ADR approved and scheduled. He was disabled and in a huge amount of pain all those months, even with large doses of opioid and non opioid and steroid injections and chiropractor care. We really do not have great remedies for pain (opioids aren't great but neither are most of the alternatives, and he had GI bleeds and anemia from NSAIDs). Chronic severe pain also causes depression and anxiety.

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