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Originally Posted by biginjapan
Today I found out that I have to get surgery on my back. I have scoliosis and I will be having it corrected this summer. My doctor told me that I probably won't ever be able to do any kind of contact sport again. This really kills me inside because I was aspiring to compete in mixed martial arts someday soon. This basically kills any hope I ever had of accomplishing this goal of mine. Not only that but I will have to postpone my graduation and I will have to move to Japan at a much later date.
Anyone else have similar issues occur?
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Damn. :/
I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm a dancer, I don't make a living from it or anything, but I'm pretty serious about it. I screwed my leg up in ballet a couple years back, and to this day it still doesn't feel quite right (shame on me for never going to the doctor, I know.) But I know what it feels like, to know what you have inside of you, but your body holds your dreams hostage.
Doctors don't always know it all, and they're proven wrong EEEEVERY day. I don't know if it's a precautionary measure for you to step back from martial arts, or if your doctor thinks that your physical ability will be lessened. And I don't want to encourage you to keep going if it means that all it would take is for someone to bump into you too hard for you to be paralyzed for life. But if it's a situation of you having to re-train your body after the healing process is complete, then I say damn the torpedoes and go for it. Even if you have to train twice as hard as the next guy.
I've seen people with no legs running around race tracks on prosthetic legs; that person should have been confined to a wheelchair for the rest of their life but here they are running at full stride. I say to talk to a few more doctors (if you haven't already) and find out if it will be possible for you to continue after the surgery. Even if it's improbable, as long as it's not
impossible, there's always a chance of you getting back in the game.
In the meantime, I wish you a full and speedy recovery.
