No surgery today or this week! It'd break time!Right now I am in an art museum at MOMA in NYC. The picture shows Monet's Water Lillies painting which is about 20 feet long and 6 or 7 feet high.Beautiful impressionistic reflections of sky and clouds amidst the floating flowers. Wow. You can get lost in […]

Sometimes my staff feel that I need a little humor in the middle of our busy clinic. Here is a rare spine surgery cartoon they shared this afternoon! While we do straighten some mighty crooked spines, we don't ever remove them! Dr. Lloyd HeyHey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery

28 degree scoliosis w stenosis and Spondylolisthesis.T12-iac wing instrumentation and fusion w 3 level lumbar laminectomy.Total surgical time: 2 hrs 45 minutes.Ebl: 1100 cc.Blood transfused: none.Correction:excellent.No XLIF needed. Dr. Lloyd HeyHey Clinic

Surgical time: 3 hr 10 min.Complications: none.Ebl: 600.Cell saver: 250.Correction: excellent. Dr. Lloyd HeyHey Clinic For Scoliosis an Spine Surgery

Had progressive back pain.T5-L1 instrumentation and fusion this morning with evoked potential monitoring.Surgical time: 2 hrs 40 minutes.Correction: excellent.Ebl: 500 cc.Blood transfused: none.Complications: none.Did not require XLIF. Dr. Lloyd HeyHey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery.www.HeyClinic.com