Just finished surgery to straighten up Trey, a 15 yo gymnast, who has had a rapidly progressive left thoracic curve over this past year, going from 26 to 41 degrees.  He also has a pectus, which may be related. His surgery today went very well.  I did special 3D preoperative CT analysis, as well as […]

From: “Pat  Subject: 3 years in July Date: June 16, 2012 8:19:05 PM EDT To: “‘Lloyd Hey’” <> Hi Dr. Hey, just thought I would let you know that I just returned from a 10 day vacation in the British Virgin Islands………….we spent 5 days on a 51′ catamaran sailing boat. I was a bit […]

34 years ago, I had no plans to become a scoliosis surgeon, or even a surgeon, or even a doctor for that matter.  I thought I would some day be a naval architect or engineer, and a motorcycle mechanic on the side for fun. But June 5, 1978 4pm  changed everything.  In the blink of […]

Holly had a collapsing adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, lumbar  Lenke 5C.  We had to do extensive preoperative planning due to the degree of her trunk shift and some concerns about an oblique takeoff at the pelvis.  Preoperative CT scan as well as bending X-Rays and in-surgery prone view with manual pressure to fully evaluate the lumbo-sacral […]

 One of the questions many of our athletic younger patients ask us is this:  “Can I return to an active, athletic outdoor lifestyle and sports after scoliosis / kyphosis deformity surgery?” Well, I received nice email below a couple weeks ago from Emory, who would answer this question “YES!” I had helped back in October […]