I received this encouraging email from Eric, who travelled all the way from Kentucky to get his flat back fixed by our Hey Clinic team at Duke Health Raleigh. Thanksgivings like this, especially at the end of a long day in the operating room and clinic really are an encouragement to me and our team, […]
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11 yo w painful adolescent idiopathic scoliosis fixed today
This young lady was really suffering with progressive thoracic pain despite significant conservative therapy. When i trained as a resident and fellow at Boston Childrens, we were taught that AIS shoul not be painful it turns out that studies done since then showed that many adolescents w scoliosis have pain many adults also have pain. […]
Stop and Smell the Roses! When Time Seems to Slow Down….
Well, another week has just zipped by, and I have have not at all faithful about sharing with our Blog followers — please forgive me! My day started off with a poem sent to me by one of my friends named Warren, which was written by a teenager in NYC hospital who was terminally ill […]
Idiopathic and degenerative scoliosis w stenosis fixed on mom of one of our scoliosis guests
T11-iliac wing instrumentation and fusion w osteotomies and laminectomies.Ebl: 1,300 ccBloo transfused: none.Complications: none.Surgical time: 3 hrs 50 minutes.Correction: excellent. Dr. Lloyd HeyHey ClinicWww.heyclinic.com
Erica, Young Adult 3 years post-op from Lumbar scoliosis surgery — doing great, finished running 14.5 mile run!
From: Erica Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:36:17 -0400 To: Lloyd Hey <> Subject: 3 years post-op Dr. Hey, I hope all is well with you! It has been a little over three years since you corrected my scoliosis and fused L4-T12. My husband, Shawn, and I just moved back to Durham from Connecticut […]