Justin’s mom just sent me this blog entry to tell their story.   My summary of Justin’s surgery is found on previous blog. Dr. Lloyd Hey –  Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery http://www.heyclinic.com ——————————– In January of 2010 our son Justin was diagnosed with a grade 3 Spondylolisthesis. He underwent spinal fusion surgery […]

At Hey Clinic, we see many straightforward adolescent, early onset and congenital scoliosis patients, as well as  adult patients who had adolescent and/or childhood scoliosis now with curve progression and pain.  We also see many patients for second and third opinions for surgery, revision surgery and scoliosis bracing.  Some of the revision surgery consults we […]

 After getting back from SRS Sunday late afternoon from Lyon, France, it has been a busy week in the operating room and clinic, culminating with both clinic and surgery on Friday. Before heading home Friday night, I checked my texts and emails before hitting the road home.  In the stack of messages,  I found this […]

I just finished doing surgery on 12 yo Madeline, who had a double curve scoliosis progress to 52/48 this past July.  Dad thought curve has gotten bigger in the couple of months since then, and curves definitely looked a bit bigger with her in big growth spurt.  As shown above, we got a nice correction, […]

I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Stuart Weinstein present the results of the BRAIST Randomized Control Trial for scoliosis bracing here at the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) conference in Lyon France.  Also today, the study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and you can read the whole article online by […]