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Clinic went well yesterday, and had wonderful walk around local village around clinic late yesterday. Pastor Leon joined us for dinner and inspirational message about the history of the devellopment of ministries here in Haiti, with churches, schools and clinics to build communities with community leadership. Each of the clinics that have been started have […]

We are just finishing our third full day of clinic here in Haiti. My son and I are here with 13 others volunteering this week. The people are wonderful, and the team is working well together. I have seen just a couple of spinal deformity patients, but have stayed very busy helping out w general […]

Brittney is 14 and is from eastern North Carolina, and has had a severe progressive thoracolumbar scoliosis. I performed corrective thoracolumbar instrumentation and fusion surgery for her on June 9, and she is now home, doing well. Her X-Rays pre and postop are shown above, and show an excellent correction of both curves. Her postoperative […]

This past Tuesday, Emily from western North Carolina came to see us with her family to get her double curve scoliosis straightened up. As shown in photos above, she got an excellent correction of her double curve scoliosis. Her lower thoracolumbar curve was slightly stiff during surgery, but I was still able to get an […]