This afternoon, we helped a 70 yo woman, who had a fall back in July with increasing back pain. Her husband had been noticing some increasing kyphosis over past couple of years. After the fall this July, she started to have severe debilitating back pain. A week ago, she had vertebroplasty done for fracture at […]
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Can you be active after scoliosis surgery? Lou from Pinehurst would tell you “Yes”, on his 10 yr Scoliosis Surgery Anniversary with Dr. Hey. Lessons learned listening to your patients.
This week, my friend and patient Lou, from Pinehurst NC came back for his 10 year anniversary appointment for his scoliosis surgery I performed for him back at Duke Medical Center in Durham. Lou, a retired CEO of a stainless steel company, really took me by surprise during our initial meetings. After he had decided […]
C34 ACDF for severe arm weakness: stronger the next day before going home from Hospital. Hey Clinic Surgery Patient week of Oct 18
We took care of this gentleman last week who had a severe spinal cord compression at C34 with severe arm weakness, including loss of fine motor. About 18 hours after surgery, on the first postoperative day he was showing off to my 2 physician assistants how strong his pinch grip had improved overnight. He went […]
Oct 22 Hey Clinic Surgery 82 yo with 2 level spondylolisthesis, scoliosis and severe stenosis
This afternoon we helped an 82 yo woman with progressive leg pain, and back pain and trouble standing or walking for more than just a couple minutes. She had a collapsing scoliosis with 2 level severe spondylolisthesis with severe stenosis. She underwent a L2-5 decompression and fusion this afternoon, and is doing well now postoperatively. […]
“Quad Rod” T12 fracture with kyphosis reconstruction for broken hardware: Nancy’s 6 week follow-up at Hey Clinic 2.5 inches taller, and smiling!
Today we saw Nancy and Bob back for 6 week follow-up. Nancy had a severe fracture of T12 with kyphosis, and had broken her rods at the fracture level on 2 occasions, breaking standard rods, and “triple rod” constructs. She was not willing to undergo an anterior-posterior reconstruction. I wrote a long Blog a few […]