Dr. Hey! Merry Christmas!! May you continue to be blessed with amazing hands to heal those suffering from scoliosis. It has been 3.5 years almost since my surgery and I continue to get stronger than ever! In addition, my running time has surpassed many past runs which placed me 2nd in the Masters in 24:30 min […]
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124 Degree Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis in 20 yo young lady
I apologize for not blogging sooner, but this is the first time I have had a moment to put my feet up for the last couple weeks as we have all been quite busy caring for many scoliosis and kyphosis patients of all ages at Hey Clinic and Duke Raleigh Hospital. Over the next couple […]
15 yo young lady with 46 degree progressive painful thoracolumbar adolescent idiopathic scoliosis straightened up this morning
Olivia’s surgery went very well this morning. Estimated blood loss 350 cc, 115 cc returned with cell saver. Correction really nice in both sagittal and coronal plane, with her preop “hump” now gone. Surgical time was 3 hours and 10 minutes.Evoked potential monitoring normal. We have several postop scoliosis and other postop spine patients upstairs […]
Thanksgiving
I just got a chance to put my feet up for a few minutes this evening and chill out a little. We have family starting to gather for holiday weekend. It’s been a good week, filled with lots of special people. Monday we straightened up a 22 yo young lady with a painful 49 […]
Little Quinna w/ Rett’s Syndrome Postop from Scoliosis Instrumentation and Fusion
Quinna Preop Quinna X-Ray Today at Hey Clinic I just left the exam room with little Quinna, who is growing like a weed! Her surgery blog entry can be found by clicking here, and her 3 month Postop Blog can be found by clicking here. We did scoliosis surgery for her a few months ago, […]