We saw Chesiree last week, who had a R thoracic kyphosis and scoliosis surgery with me and the Hey Clinic team a few months ago.She is a 20 yo young lady who suffered with severe back pain with her scoliosis for years, which we now know occurs in about 1/3 of patients with scoliosis or […]
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Hey Clinic Postop Visit: Nancy doing great after scoliosis and stenosis repair and CABG
Earlier this week we saw one of our favorite patients named “Nancy” from Raleigh. Nancy was sent to us by another lovely lady from Raleigh who had her spine fixed at Hey Clinic, and Nancy has sent us several patients over the past couple of months. Nancy sailed through her lumbar scoliosis and stenosis surgery […]
Hey Clinic Sep 11 2007 Afternoon Surgery: Degenerative scoliosis and stenosis.
This afternoon we helped a 67 yo woman who had previous lumbar laminectomies who developed collapsing kyphoscoliosis with severe stenosis, including a big free fragment disc hernniation at L23. She had a L2-Iliac wing reconstruction this afternoon with 4 level revision laminectomy to relieve the pressure on her nerves, and had that free fragment disc […]
Hey Clinic Tue Sep 11 2007 AM Surgery
This morning we helped a 56 yo gentleman who had previous lumbar laminectomies who had severe low back and radiating leg pain, and progressive trouble walking. His CT scan showed multilevel severe stenosis. He had multilevel discograms performed elsewhere which showed severe multilevel degeneration, worst at L5S1, L45 and L34. His stenosis was severe at […]
Hey Clinic Postop Surgery Visit: “Crooked Iona” becomes the “Miracle Woman” standing up straight 6 weeks postop
We saw Iona and her husband at Hey Clinic mid-day today. She is six weeks status post a complex T3-Iliac wing spinal reconstruction with L5S1 TLIF, and multilevel lumbar laminectomy for a severe collapsing kyphoscoliosis. Her husband said that she looked, and felt worse than the “Humpback of Notre Dame” before surgery. At Rex Rehab […]