Dr. Hey,Thank you so much for your feedback – that was a very pleasant surprise!!I wanted to add some more details about my situation: I was diagnosed at age 13 with a curve of 32 degrees (menarche had already occurred by this time). When I was first diagnosed, I started wearing the Charleston bending brace […]

Today I received this message from a young lady named Iris via my Blog: Hi Dr. Hey!I found your blog when I was searching for blogs that mentioned scoliosis. It’s neat how you are blogging about your patients and the treatment they are getting. I have scoliosis and wore a Boston TLSO for over a […]

This past week, I got a chance to see a 53 yo gentleman from Mississippi who works as a river boat engineer. He has a 94 degree thoracic curve, and has developed severe pain in his low back over the past 10+ years which has gotten significantly worse during the past year. This is a […]

I got a chance to see an old friend this past week named Susan, who I helped 7 years ago back at Duke Medical Center (DUMC) with a T4-L5 instrumentation and fusion.  She has done just great over the years, returning to her very active life, including working with little children at school as  a […]

Mary is a delightful woman from Princeton, NJ who has been suffering with severe progressive scoliosis for many years.  She had been told there was no hope / no cure for her problem, and her pain continued to increase.  She travelled 468 miles down from Princeton to see us a couple months ago, after hearing […]