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Rita, Looking Great after Scoliosis Surgery

Last week we saw Rita back for follow-up after her correction of her thoracolumbar severe scoliosis. We were able to correct her deformity from a posterior approach only, with a TLIF spacer at her L45 level to give more support. Her L5S1 level was spared, since the disc was in good shape.Her posture now is […]

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Hunter’s New Straight Neck! And Beautiful Family Art.

Hunter is an 13 yo young man who had a bout with inflammatory bowel disease (Chrohn’s), and then developed severe neck pain and what appeared to be torticollis 8 months ago. Traction, both inpatient and outpatient did not help. He was thought to have possible rotatory subluxation. He could not hold his head straight, nor […]

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12 yo Heather with the Double Curve Scoliosis Grows 3 inches!

I have been a bit delinquent keeping up with the Hey Clinic Blog the past couple of weeks! We have had some really wonderful people recently, including Heather, who is 12 years old, standing next to me at Duke Raleigh Hospital 2 days after her T4-L4 instrumentation and fusion for a severe double curve scoliosis […]

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