This week, my friend and patient Lou, from Pinehurst NC came back for his 10 year anniversary appointment for his scoliosis surgery I performed for him back at Duke Medical Center in Durham. Lou, a retired CEO of a stainless steel company, really took me by surprise during our initial meetings. After he had decided […]

We took care of this gentleman last week who had a severe spinal cord compression at C34 with severe arm weakness, including loss of fine motor. About 18 hours after surgery, on the first postoperative day he was showing off to my 2 physician assistants how strong his pinch grip had improved overnight. He went […]

This afternoon we helped an 82 yo woman with progressive leg pain, and back pain and trouble standing or walking for more than just a couple minutes. She had a collapsing scoliosis with 2 level severe spondylolisthesis with severe stenosis. She underwent a L2-5 decompression and fusion this afternoon, and is doing well now postoperatively. […]

Today we saw Nancy and Bob back for 6 week follow-up. Nancy had a severe fracture of T12 with kyphosis, and had broken her rods at the fracture level on 2 occasions, breaking standard rods, and “triple rod” constructs. She was not willing to undergo an anterior-posterior reconstruction. I wrote a long Blog a few […]

On Friday, we saw Karen, one of our dearest patients back for follow-up with her mom. She has had an amazing recovery from major thoracolumbar kyphoscoliosis surgery as well as anterior/posterior cervical spine reconstructive surgery for vertebral discitis with severe myelopathy with severe quadriparesis. It was a long, tough battle, and at times seemed fairly […]