At age nine, Sabrina was diagnosed with idiopathic scoliosis with a twenty degree double curvature; meaning, her spine was S-shaped due to a thoracic curve and a lumbar curve jutted in opposite directions. For a year she only had x-rays every few months to monitor the curvature as she grew. At age ten, it increased to twenty-eight degrees, so she was […]

I received this email yesterday from Jim, who sent me this picture and message from his iphone, atop Diamond Head.  I’ve included his preop and postop MRI and X-Rays.  He had a L2-Iliac wing instrumentation and fusion with multilevel laminectomies. Jim: so glad you are back to good quality of life!  Thanks for sharing. Dr. […]

 It’s Friday night, and I just got a chance to put my feet up after a really good, but very busy first week of 2013.  Our scoliosis surgery this week included 15 yo Thomas, who had a 64 degree collapsing adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and Down’s Syndrome.  I did his surgery over at WakeMed on Tuesday. […]

Sabrina is one of our college-age athlete swimmer who had scoliosis surgery with us, and is in training now down in Florida.  Her mom sent us this cool update with her doing a back bend after her adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) surgery!  She is also swimming competitively. Check it out at bottom of this blog. […]

Dr. Hey! Merry Christmas!! May you continue to be blessed with amazing hands to heal those suffering from scoliosis. It has been 3.5 years almost since my surgery and I continue to get stronger than ever!  In addition, my running time has surpassed many past runs which placed me 2nd in the Masters in 24:30 min  […]