Legg-Calve Perthes Disease
I dove competitively all throughout middle and high school. Dealing with hip pain throughout those years I was still able to finish 3rd in the State my senior year. Diving throughout college now at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL with a club team and the college masters division, my hip pain came back with a vengeance and forced me to not only discontinue practices, but it made me unable to focus on school, and I developed an obvious limp. A single x-ray was done and it was clear this was no normal athlete pain, I had been living with Perthes disease for a long time, most likely secondary to genetic nail-patella syndrome, making sense of a lot of the pain I had been dealing with for nearly a decade.
A local South Florida doctor referred me to Dr. Feldman, who gave me the hope that he could take away my pain AND allow me to stay active. I chose to work with Dr. Feldman who we together chose to aggressively treat the Perthes and reconstruct my femoral head, and 6 weeks later reconstruct my hip socket this last fall. 6 months after the last surgery I got my hardware removed, and not a day too soon: I now get to fulfill a dream of mine, and I will be competing in Nationals In Georgia in the first week of April.
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Thank you to Dr. Feldman for not only taking away my pain, but allowing me to not just live a normal life, but thrive as an athlete and get me to a place where I can compete as a diver in Nationals my senior year of college. Living with Perthes is not easy, and it sure does force you to be strong, but I thank God for Dr. Feldman and my therapists for doing what it took to get me to a place where I can live pain-free again, and challenge myself and thrive as an athlete to stay the active, healthy, young woman I strive to be.