All posts by Dr. Lloyd Hey

Hey Clinic Surgery Nov 1: Carolyn’s Anterior/Posterior Reconstruction for pseudarthrosis and “Flat Back Syndrome”

Carolyn is a delightful 64 yo woman from Georgia who had an L3-S1 posterior instrumentation and fusion performed elsewhere, who suffers with flat back syndrome, with low back pain and trouble walking. Her X-Rays and CT scan suggest possible pseudarthrosis at the L5S1 level, where she also has an anterior spondylolisthesis.  Her lumbar lordosis preop […]

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Great Motivation to take your calcium every day. Today’s urgent surgery for L1 burst fracture with severe osteoporosis with L1 vertebroplasty

This afternoon, we helped a 70 yo woman, who had a fall back in July with increasing back pain. Her husband had been noticing some increasing kyphosis over past couple of years. After the fall this July, she started to have severe debilitating back pain. A week ago, she had vertebroplasty done for fracture at […]

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