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 I wanted to start of today’s blog with a special “hello” to Olivia’s grandma in Buffalo, NY.  Olivia had her adolescent idiopathic scoliosis fixed with us for her double curve back about 6 weeks ago, and is doing extremely well!  Her grandma also has scoliosis and kyphosis, and has followed Olivia’s surgery and recovery closely. […]

At age nine, Sabrina was diagnosed with idiopathic scoliosis with a twenty degree double curvature; meaning, her spine was S-shaped due to a thoracic curve and a lumbar curve jutted in opposite directions. For a year she only had x-rays every few months to monitor the curvature as she grew. At age ten, it increased to twenty-eight degrees, so she was […]

I received this email yesterday from Jim, who sent me this picture and message from his iphone, atop Diamond Head.  I’ve included his preop and postop MRI and X-Rays.  He had a L2-Iliac wing instrumentation and fusion with multilevel laminectomies. Jim: so glad you are back to good quality of life!  Thanks for sharing. Dr. […]

 It’s Friday night, and I just got a chance to put my feet up after a really good, but very busy first week of 2013.  Our scoliosis surgery this week included 15 yo Thomas, who had a 64 degree collapsing adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and Down’s Syndrome.  I did his surgery over at WakeMed on Tuesday. […]

Sabrina is one of our college-age athlete swimmer who had scoliosis surgery with us, and is in training now down in Florida.  Her mom sent us this cool update with her doing a back bend after her adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) surgery!  She is also swimming competitively. Check it out at bottom of this blog. […]