Using Schroth physical therapy and home exercises and 3D-CADCAM Rigo-Cheneau bracing, we are able to treat the very large majority of our scoliosis patients at Hey Clinic with conservative therapy, and life-long follow-up. However, there still is a small percentage of patients whose curves progress and/or the patients have pain and/or posture issues where […]
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June Is Scoliosis Awareness Month! The Under 30 degree Green Zone… Screening at Home… and Need for Life-Long Scoliosis Follow-up
25 degree Angle Trunk Rotation (ATR) R Thoracic Rib hump This is a guest post from Colleen Skeete and Jonathan Revoir, scoliosis patients and CareGuard Institute interns. Welcome to Scoliosis Awareness Month! Our spine is the core of our body that holds us up for our lifetime, and we can take it for granted. Early […]
Responding to Coronavirus –Hey Clinic”Pit Stop” EOS X-Ray for “No Touch” 3 minute visit + Telemedic…
What a wild couple of weeks it has been here, and around the country and the world with coronavirus. Here is a short video on how we are innovating to help give patients and families more choices to how to screen for scoliosis and other deformities, and be able to get the necessary imaging when […]
“Minimally Invasive Scoliosis Surgery” — Harnessing the body’s ability to realign. Good news for 13 yo Regan with AIS
There has been a lot of buzz in recent years about the Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS), and in some cases minimally invasive scoliosis surgery, using small puncture incisions, XLIF’s, slipping rods under the skin, and/or going anteriorly with tethering through the chest. But many people have not heard much about the LEAST invasive scoliosis […]
Leah’s Thankfulness Tree: for those who give a more positive outlook to overcome scoliosis….
It was a beautiful sunny fall afternoon in our Hey Clinic Great Room today when I bumped into Andrea, one of my scoliosis moms. She had to show me something her daughter Leah made this week in school for Thanksgiving. She showed me the “Tbankfulness Tree” Leah made, and a long list of things she […]