What a pleasure it was to see Pat and her family back for follow-up yesterday morning.Pat had adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, with progression of her curves during her adult years, with increasing pain and deformity.Her posture looks great, incision looked great, and she is doing extremely well. There were lots of smiles — a great way […]
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FW: thank you
From: Craig <> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:04:59 -0400 To: Lloyd Hey <> Subject: Re: thank you Dr. Hey and Staff, Thank you for taking such good care of my niece Brittany. My brother Scott, couldn’t say enough about how well everything went. Our family really appreciates all the care and concern you showed […]
No more hump on back!
This morning we fixed Brittany’s scoliosis. She’s 22, grew up with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and has large R thoracic curve w pain and very large R rib hump. I fixed it today using our latest "double rod persuader technique, and the large R rib hump looks and feels like it is gone! Here is […]
Anterior-posterior reconstruction for severe flat back syndrome w pseudarthrosis and severe pain.
Gentleman had instrumentation and fusion for scoliosis over 8 yrs ago, and developed increasing back pain and kyphosis. We straightened him up today w L5S1 ALIF followed by posterior reconstruction down to ilium w BMP. Surgical time for entire procedure was 6 hour 15 min. EBL: 1150 cc. Complications: none. Will go to ICU overnight […]
Nancy from Alabama heading back to RDU airport after scoliosis surgery last week.
I saw Nancy and her daughter in hospital this morning all set to go home. We showed Nancy’s xrays on blog last week before and after she had her nearly 70 degree scoliosis fixed. Here she is standing up straight and tall, now almost taller than me! She wanted me to share this picture on […]