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“I’ve Got Your Back:” Cameron’s Tweeted Adolescent Idiopathic Surgery Today. Live Surgery Video/Photo

We tried something new at Hey Clinic and Duke Raleigh Hospital today — communicating with family during surgery via Tweets!!  Cameron’s mom is a nurse working the operating room for many years, and her dad also has many year’s experience working in hospitals and operating rooms as an orthopedic implant representative. Cameron’s surgery went super […]

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Outcomes after Scoliosis Surgery. Experience and the “Proof is in the Pudding”…. What do patients and families say after having adolescent or adult scoliosis, kyphosis or revision spinal surgery?

It’s been a good week and a good clinic today, and here are a bunch of patients we saw today, including a bunch of folks I didn’t photograph including some adolescents that we are treating in scoliosis braces or observing.  Distance furthest traveled to see us in clinic today was Kellie and her mom from […]

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How badly will I suffer if I consider having scoliosis surgery as an adult? Will I regret the decision, or will it help improve quality of life?

Whew, it has been super-busy around Hey Clinic the past several weeks, and I regret not having time to sit down to do some writing and sharing with all of you!  Thanksgiving was busy but wonderful, seeing some family, but also rounding each day at the hospital.  I received an email this evening from Lynwood, […]

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Fwd: My First 1/2 marathon

QUESTION:  CAN YOU / I GO BACK TO RUNNING AND AGGRESSIVE EXERCISE AS AN ADULT SCOLIOSIS SURGERY PATIENT?   ANSWER:  TALK TO MARCIA, AND READ HER BOOK! I just received this email from Marcia, who had scoliosis surgery with me a few years ago, and just finished writing her own book about her experience with […]

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