We saw Kayla and her family for follow-up this past week, and she looked awesome! She had a very nasty 90 degree scoliosis which we were able to get an excellent correction using a powerful double rod Pursuader Technique. In Clinic, her posture and incision looked great. She gained 3 inches in height! Her trunk […]
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Can your adolescent athlete return to competitive sports after scoliosis surgery?
I got a chance to see this young man and his mom back for follow-up on Friday. He had a huge adolescent idiopathic scoliosis curve that we fixed last year. He was able to go back to very competitive soccer rapidly, and plays without restrictions. His mom was kind enough to email me several pictures […]
Wake County Physician’s Magazine Article
WHATEVER HAPPENED TOSCOLIOSIS SCREENING?By Lloyd A. Hey, MD, MS* Consultant’s Corner 40 | JULY 2010 • WAKE COUNTY PHYSICIAN It is late on a Friday afternoon, and ananxious call comes into Hey Clinicfrom a pediatrician that she had anurgent spine consult for a young man withan apparent rapidly growing spinal tumorgrowing out of his lower […]
Sweet Home Alabama!
Late this afternoon and evening we strraightened up 23 yo Sara from Alabama who had very painful and deforming 63 degree right thoracic idiopathic adolescent scoliosis which has continued to progress as an adult. We got an awesome correction w surgical time of 4.5 hours. No blood transfusions. She will go up to her private […]