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9 yo boy w/ severe spastic quadriplegia sp “shaken baby syndrome” and history thoracic fractures now with severe kyphosis and trouble sitting

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I saw a very unfortunate 9 yo boy in clinic on Friday who was the victim of “Shaken Baby Syndrome” age 7  months, with resultant severe spastic quadriplegia, and some thoracic compression fractures. He has gradually fallen into increasing severe kyphosis, with increasing difficulty sitting in wheelchair or any chair, and has obvious discomfort now […]

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Anterior/Posterior L5S1 Reconstruction for L5S1 Discitis likely secondary to Dental Infection. Sep 13 2007 Hey Clinic Surgery

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Wednesday at Hey Clinic we saw Nell, from New Bern in Clinic.  She had been doing well after multilevel instrumentation and fusion.  However, over the past couple of months, she developed severe lower back pain and difficulty walking.  Her Xrays showed some severe degeneration below her previous fusion at L5S1, and her CT scan showed […]

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Hey Clinic Sep 13 2007 AM Surgery: New “QUAD ROD” technique for stabilizing thoracic kyphotic fracture with history of rod breakage.

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Yesterday morning, September 13th 2007, we helped a Nancy, a 75 yo woman who had a T12 severe wedge fracture above a previous fusion which caused myelopathy and severe pain. This was fixed using a laminectomy, and extension instrumentation and fusion. Postoperatively, she had trouble with rod breakages at that high load area around T12, […]

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