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I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Stuart Weinstein present the results of the BRAIST Randomized Control Trial for scoliosis bracing here at the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) conference in Lyon France.  Also today, the study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and you can read the whole article online by […]

Yesterday, this posting went up on the Duke Raleigh Hospital Blog, regarding one of our recent adolescent idiopathic scoliosis families.  I’ve copied the text below, or you can go to the link above.The picture at the top of their blog is from the beautiful gardens and gazebo right next to Hey Clinic, which sits right […]

I saw Amy recently after her recent revision kyphoscoliosis surgery with me — she is doing well, and her posture is looking great.  She said it would be ok to make her YouTube video public and share with all of you!  I haven’t had a chance to do the voice overlay, but it still might […]

We saw Charyl back in clinic Friday doing really well. She had failure below her old Harrington Rod fusion that she had for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.  She shares her story on YouTube video below and thanks the Hey Clinic and Duke Raleigh Hospital Staff for their help and her ability to return to quality of […]

This week we helped Amy, a 19 yo who had kyphoscoliosis surgery done elsewhere complicated by proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK), and residual scoliosis and kyphosis deformity.  This week we revised her previous surgery, removing the old hardware including the sublaminar hooks, doing multiple osteotomies, and a special proximal fixation technique using innovative sublaminar fixation.   […]