Sheila had severe flatback syndrome, spinal stenosis, and severe kyphotic posture combined with severe L5S1 anterolisthesis below a previous Harrington Rod fusion done many years ago for her adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.  Her pre and postop posture is shown on previous blog post.    She sent me this email earlier this am, with her latest accomplishment. […]

After finishing up a day in surgery or in clinic, it is always a great joy to find a hand-written note from one of our patients on my desk.  This week I’ve received a couple of notes shown below — one from Alex, a 20 yo gentleman from Venice, Florida who had a fairly severe […]

After, and before revision scoliosis surgery with Dr. Lloyd Hey I was originally diagnosed with scoliosis when I was 13. I was never braced–just given all forms of physical therapy, pain meds, etc. Finally by the time I was 18–my curve had gotten much worse and I was in terrible pain. I was playing golf in […]

I was born with one lung and was diagnosed with scoliosis at age 12. At that point in time my spine was too far gone for any kind of brace, surgery was the only answer. We were afraid to do surgery because at 12 years old I had already medically been through so much. So […]

I received these 2 pictures from Sheila, from South Carolina, who had flat back syndrome anterior/posterior surgery with me a few weeks ago, and is now doing very well. She had an old Harrington rod fusion with severe L5S1 spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis.   Email text received today with first and second photos! Hello. I […]