We are just finishing our third full day of clinic here in Haiti. My son and I are here with 13 others volunteering this week. The people are wonderful, and the team is working well together. I have seen just a couple of spinal deformity patients, but have stayed very busy helping out w general […]

Brittney is 14 and is from eastern North Carolina, and has had a severe progressive thoracolumbar scoliosis. I performed corrective thoracolumbar instrumentation and fusion surgery for her on June 9, and she is now home, doing well. Her X-Rays pre and postop are shown above, and show an excellent correction of both curves. Her postoperative […]

This past Tuesday, Emily from western North Carolina came to see us with her family to get her double curve scoliosis straightened up. As shown in photos above, she got an excellent correction of her double curve scoliosis. Her lower thoracolumbar curve was slightly stiff during surgery, but I was still able to get an […]

After Emily’s surgery in the morning, I got together with Micah and his parents in preop as shown above. Micah is 11, and has had a rapidly progressive double curve scoliosis. His surgery went very well, with a T6-L3 instrumentation and fusion, and excellent correction of his deformity. I used our laminar flow operating room […]