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The pubic symphysis is a joint with fluid, just like your knuckles and it can be 'cracked' right? I think I can easily crack this joint whenever (just press your knees together really hard, using only your thigh muscles). (I have no idea how this works in a woman's anatomy and I'm not a doctor lol). Now, I'm imagining having a bone graft permanently stuck between the joint space, with all the natural growth forces of your bones and muscles in the pelvis essentially sandwiching down on the only 'bridge' keeping the hip bones at their wider angle.How is the gap created without angling the pelvis fragments? Then staple something to bridge the symphysis. But now the angle those iliac bits hits the SI joints is off by several degrees. This isn’t just meat Lego it’s skeletal Lego. You can’t do it. You’d never walk again, every moment would be agony.
I know someone whose symphysis never properly healed. She’s got about 9mm of separation, and she still can’t take her shoes off without sitting down on a chair and has to have a swivel pad to get into her car.
Wow that sounds like a really, really uncomfortable thing to do.
Will the surgery retain the natural flexibility of the symphysis joint? Obviously your taint isn't doing any gymnastics but I imagine the minuscule amount of flex the natural symphysis provides is like...probably pretty important or else we wouldn't have evolved it that way. Does the pubic symphysis flex every time you move your butt in a chair?
If the two sides of the pelvis are bone grafted together, would that make it rather easy to fracture? And probably miserably uncomfortable?
