This 38 yo woman had scoliosis fixed, and then several years later had increasing back and leg symptoms. Xray and ct showed pars fracture and spondylolisthesis w halo effect around bottom screws at L5. Fixed today w revision T11-iliac wing extension instrumentation w Gill procedure and BMP. No complications. OR time: 4 hour 5 min. […]

Nancy met one of my other scoliosis patients named Margorie from Alabama, who suggested coming up here as well. She had a very severe scoliosis w severe back and R leg pain and lateral listhesis w collapse lower lumbar spine. Surgery: T5-iliac wing instrumentation and fusion w 3 posterior Smith-Peterson osteomies as well as 2 […]

Our clinic was blessed mid-day today with a special ginger bread cookie “floral display” from Terri’s family — our scoliosis surgery guest from yesterday. Last week I spent virtually the whole week at the SRS Conference (Scoliosis Research Society) in San Antonio Texas. This week I was definitely “back in the saddle” in the operating […]

Surgery: T5-L3 instrumentation and fusion Surgical time: 3 hour 15 min. Complications: none. Correction: excellent. Near 100 per cent. One of the big benefits of fixing scoliosis with curves in 40’s rather than 60"’s or 70’s or 80’s is that we can usually get a better final correction, especially in the younger and more flexible […]

T12-iliac wing instrum and fusion w multilevel lumbar osteotomies. She did well, and will be going to ortho floor to be w her husband. Up and around tomorrow. It is a little unusual for scoliosis t collapse below fusions down to L1, but it still can happen. More modern instrumentation combined w earlier intervention can […]