In clinic on Friday we saw some very happy scoliosis follow-up patients ranging from the teens,  then Candice who is in her 20’s, to a nurse in her 50’s and Sarah, shown here who is going to be 80 years old this year! Each one is thankful for their new posture, and better quality of […]

We showed Candice’s back a few months ago.  She had a very severe case of hypokyphosis with her thoracic scoliosis, which caused her lung volumes to be quite small, and also caused her chest to look quite “sunken in.” I saw her back in clinic on Friday along with a bunch of other scoliosis postoperative […]

Today we helped a gentleman who developed adjacent level spinal stenosis and kyphosis above a previous scoliosis fusion. He had developed bilateral lower extremity clumsiness due to the spinal cord pinch. Today I fixed the stenosis w a 2 level thoracic laminectomy and a revision T10-Iliac wing extension decompression and fusion w BMP. Surgical time: […]