Yesterday evening, my wife Lori and I were the invited guests for Cornell University Phi Delta Episolon’s PreMed Lecture, where I spoke on: “Finding and Maintaining Joy and Idealism in the Journey through Medicine” We had a wonderful group of students there, who all participated in the discussion, starting with my first question: “What are […]
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Fwd: [The Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery] New comment on 15 yo Britney from South Carolina w preop 77 degre….
From: britney Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:56 PM Britney has left a new comment on your post “15 yo Britney from South Carolina w preop 77 degre…“: I’m still doing awesome after 2 years. I was thinking about this and I never actually looked at this or my xrays side by side. You did […]
What could happen to a small thoracolumbar curve with trunk shift as adolescent/young adult 40-45 years later?
Pam, Age 20 on left in red with trunk shift to right. Pam, Age 60, 1 year after scoliosis surgery Yesterday we saw Pam and her husband Gerry for her 1 year postop follow-up at Hey Clinic for her thoracolumbar-iliac wing instrumentation and fusion with laminectomies and osteotomies. She is doing really well, is active […]
Another interesting and busy week caring for kids, adolescents and adults with spinal deformity, spondylolysis, and spondlylolisthesis
All of us at Hey Clinic are catching our breath this holiday weekend after a good, but very busy weeek in the clinic and at the hospital caring for children as young as 4 years old, up through tons of teens with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, and adults with old adolescent scoliosis deformity now concerned about […]
When should I get a scoliosis evaluation as an adult? Should I get up the courage to go and talk to someone about my scoliosis concerns?
My PA Rachel and I spent a good hour with Diana, who is now 70, but looks and acts more like someone in her 30’s or 40’s! Diana had adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, and had upper curve fixed with non-instrumentated fusion, and postop casting in 1957, before the Harrington rod instrumentation was done commonly. She spent […]