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June 5, 1978  A clear, sunny day just like today. A day I will never forget. From a care free teenager one minute, to a teenager bleeding severely on the street, clenching my left leg crushed beyond recognition. I cried out to God like never before: “HELP!” Help came with a sense of peace, and […]

Stuart just finished up his exams at college, and came in to get his scoliosis fixed the next day. I performed his surgery as usual over at Duke Raleigh Hospital next to Hey Clinic, in North Raleigh. Our new high tech laminar flow operating room was used, with “Moon Suits”, and the latest infection prevention […]

Below is an email from Alyssa, who had a very painful L5S1 annular tear that I fixed through a small anterior approach with an ALIF cage and plate a few months ago. Her Xrays and story are on earlier blog entries. She sent me this email today to let me know that her final outcome […]

From: Lesley Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 00:06:42 -0400 To: "Dr. Lloyd Hey" Subject: thankyou just wanted to say thank you again for doing such a wonderful job today. I’m a little groggy, but wide awake from sleeping all day, so thought I would drop you a line. I cannot tell you how pleased I […]

Today we helped a young lady who had an unusual long R thoracic scoliosis. Her spine had severe hypokyphosis, so that the front to back diameter of her chest wall was way too thin, giving little room for lungs and heart. This also gave her back a very “sunken in” appearance in addition to the […]