Rebecca,My residency training and pediatric scoliosis and pediatric orthopaedic training was at Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Surgery Program and Boston Children’s Hospital.My adult fellowship training at Duke was in both Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic Spine.My Board Certification, including recertification this year is with the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.When I served on faculty at Duke for approximately […]
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Natural History of Adolescent Scoliosis Curve Progression as a Function of Degree of Curvature and Age. Scoliosis Bracing Decision Requires More Information and Dialogue, not simple rule.
Back in 1989 when I was a Junior Resident at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Program, I did my first rotation at Boston Children’s Hospital, and learned a very simple rule to use in their busy scoliosis clinic: If there is any significant growth remaining, consider putting the child/adolescent in a brace if: Cobb angle 30-39 […]
Duke Pre-Med Student, Jing, shares some reflections on her summer “shadow” internship experience with Hey Clinic
My Experience at the Hey Clinic When Duke University’s Health Careers Exploration Program first informed me that I would be shadowing Dr. Hey in the Hey clinic this past summer, I was so excited. I started looking through the clinic’s website, and reading the blogs online. I hadn’t ever heard of a spinal clinic before […]
Anterior/Posterior (A/P) spine reconstruction for 50 yo woman with flatback syndrome, and L5S1 severe disc collapse below previous long fusion, with removal of unusual hardware. Hey Clinic Surgery Sep 20 2007. Spine Surgeon Surgical Tips: Instruction Manual for Removing Grubb Spinal Hardware.
Today at Duke Raleigh Hospital we helped a 50 yo woman who has had 6 major spinal surgeries done elsewhere for scoliosis and extension fusions. Her last surgery was several years ago, and extended her fusion down to L5, leaving one remaining disc. Over the past few years, she had noted severe increasing back and […]
Oklahoma 40 yo gentleman Kyphosis causing neck and low back pain
On Friday I saw one of my patients from Oklahoma back for follow-up. He is about 40 years old, and has suffered with an accentuated thoracic kyphosis for many years. The curve has not progressed over past 4-6 years, with a thoracic curve around 59 degrees, which is certainly above normal, but has not progressed […]