This 38 yo woman named Rebecca had a minimally invasive scoliosis surgery in Florida, and a sacro-iliac fusion done elsewhere presented to Hey Clinic with persistent low back and R hip and leg pain. Her pain has actually been progressive, and did not improve either with the first scoliosis fusion L2-L4, nor with the SI […]

A couple week’s back I briefly described a complex anterior/posterior reconstruction we did for a very nice 54 yo woman from Florida (near Tampa). This young lady had a Harrington Rod instrumentation and fusion done many years ago, and over the past 10+ years has developed progressive severe back pain, and trouble with increasing kyphotic […]

A couple weeks ago we helped a nice young man who had a 55 degree scoliosis when initially diagnosed with scoliosis.  He is a very muscular, athletic young man, which in part hid some of his curve, but does emphasize again the importance of scoliosis screenings.  Parents and children/adolescents are often a bit upset when […]

It has been a busy few weeks @ Hey Clinic, and I am a bit behind on the Blog…sorry for the delay for our many loyal readers! Here are some preop/postop pictures for a nice young lady named Debbie from North Carolina who had a very painful, and noticable collapsing kyphoscoliosis. We were fortunate to […]

Yesterday we performed a complex anterior L45, L5S1 cage instrumentation and fusion followed immediately by posterior T3-Iliac wing instrumentation and fusion with multilevel posterior thoracic osteotomies, lumbar osteotomies, lumbar laminectomies, and removal of old Harrington Rods for this 54 yo woman from Florida who had severe deformity, and sever pain, on high dose morphine preoperatively. […]