Well, ladies and gentleman, we have our first winner of the Hey Clinic Challenge Question. Yesterday we received this answer from “TwistedSister” via the Hey Clinic Blog: “I suspect that her neck pain may be attributed to her trying to hold her neck in a normal vertically straight upright position. Thus, her neck musculature is […]
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The first Hey Clinic Clinical Puzzle.. 2 matching curves.
Earlier today, I saw this woman who drove up from Alabama to see us for asecond opinion for her severe scoliosis with large trunk shift.Surprisingly, her pain is primarily in her neck. Question: Why is she having neck pain, when her obvious problem is in herthoroaculumbar spine? I welcome suggested answers via comments.First correct answer […]
Erik comes back to see us from Kentucky after Flat Back Syndrome Surgery at Hey Clinic
During Friday’s clinic, we saw Ekic and his family who drove seven hours (341 miles) from his home in Richmond Kentucky to come back to see us for his one year postop visit.Erik had a previous scoliosis fusion done years ago, and has had difficulties with flat back syndrome for many years with severe deformity […]
“Do you think that laminectomy might have affected my scoliosis?
I think I need to hire a scribe to follow me around all day, to help me capture all of the interesting stories our guests share with us, and what we learn from serving them each day. The past couple weeks have been filled with lots of great people visiting us from all over. The […]
Hey Clinic on Breast cancer walk !!!
Over the past several months, Shelbi and others in our office have beenorganizing fund-raising and awareness for breast cancer research. We evencreated a pink version of our Hey Clinic T-Shirt that we have been givingout to our guests who made a donation for the American Cancer Society –"Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" Walk October 1st. […]