Poop Hips

Poop? Seriously? That’s the name of this book?

Yeah..yeah.. I know. Gross.

But, are you aware of how close the phrase “potty mouth” comes to being real in our more involved kids with neurologic injury? And why is there such underwhelming interest? It gets the General Custer treatment. Doctors looking at hip x-rays look right past a cause of many big surgeries that these kids come to as well as it being a source of grief and woe. Do you know what’s neat about being an anesthesiologist? Where others only get to SAY “Up your nose with a rubber hose!” Anesthesiologists get to do it every day, often to those undergoing big surgeries that could have been prevented. Poop matters. It matters in situations most don’t even suspect. This book has only one main goal. To get this detail to be taken seriously: Most of the hip dislocations operated on in CP are preventable and caused or contributed to by BOWEL malfunction. BOWEL ! Especially when paired with dystonic reactivity.