See our recent news feature on WRAL Local News! Patients Help Correct Their Own Spine Using Conservative Treatments Hey Clinic for Scoliosis & Spine Care uses 3D CADCAM Bracing and Schroth Physical Therapy to Combat Back Pain as they Observe World Spine Day RALEIGH, North Carolina, (October 6, 2021) – An estimated 80% of the population will […]
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Caring for your Incision
Caring for your Incision from our Physician Assistant Kristina Stanson “I believe scars are like memories that tell a story on your body, that remind you of how strong you had to be, and that you survived to talk about it. Your scars are a way of communicating, and sharing a trauma can be healing in […]
Will I lose spine flexibility if I have a spine fusion for scoliosis? I want to be able to dance or play sports! Will I be unable to dance or cheerlead or dive / swim?
Using Schroth physical therapy and home exercises and 3D-CADCAM Rigo-Cheneau bracing, we are able to treat the very large majority of our scoliosis patients at Hey Clinic with conservative therapy, and life-long follow-up. However, there still is a small percentage of patients whose curves progress and/or the patients have pain and/or posture issues where […]
June Is Scoliosis Awareness Month! The Under 30 degree Green Zone… Screening at Home… and Need for Life-Long Scoliosis Follow-up
25 degree Angle Trunk Rotation (ATR) R Thoracic Rib hump This is a guest post from Colleen Skeete and Jonathan Revoir, scoliosis patients and CareGuard Institute interns. Welcome to Scoliosis Awareness Month! Our spine is the core of our body that holds us up for our lifetime, and we can take it for granted. Early […]
Responding to Coronavirus –Hey Clinic”Pit Stop” EOS X-Ray for “No Touch” 3 minute visit + Telemedic…
What a wild couple of weeks it has been here, and around the country and the world with coronavirus. Here is a short video on how we are innovating to help give patients and families more choices to how to screen for scoliosis and other deformities, and be able to get the necessary imaging when […]