Tomorrow, (Oct 8) Saturday night — you need to watch Fox Sports to see Ken Rosenthal, top baseball writer and sportscaster wearing his custom-made bowtie to help promote scoliosis awareness and research with the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS). He wrote a nice article published this evening on the foxsports.com website which has a link below. […]
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Getting the SAS JMP help I needed
Since 1985 as a second year medical student at Harvard, I've been interested in clinical research and statistics. It was in that year that I got first copy of SAS PC on 15 floppy discs and installed it on my new IBM xt computer w the little green monochrome screen and massive 20mb hard drive. […]
“You’re too old for scoliosis surgery”
Saw MD yesterday in clinic who had referred a 50 Yo patient w post-polio syndrome w severe scoliosis and severe pain. Was seen at an academic medical center by spine surgeon who told patient "you are too old for scoliosis surgery!". She continues to suffer. This patient below had kyphoscoliosis surgery this morning. She is […]
14 Yo young lady w 56 degree adolescent idiopathic scoliosis straightened up this morning
Double curve also w 66 degrees of kyphosis.T3-L3 instrumentation and fusion w OsteotomiesSurgical time: 3 hrs 12 min Complications: noneEbl: 350 ccBlood transfused: none. Correction: very good.