All of us at Hey Clinic are catching our breath this holiday weekend after a good, but very busy weeek in the clinic and at the hospital caring for children as young as 4 years old, up through tons of teens with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, and adults with old adolescent scoliosis deformity now concerned about […]

9 years ago this past week, I met a young lady named Angela from North Raleigh, NC who was about to start high school.  Her pediatrician noticed a hump on her back, and sent her to me for possible scoliosis.  It turned out that she had thoracolumbar curve over 50 degrees with a very large […]

This Wednesday I got back from a wonderful two and a half week vacation with family, which included some phenomenal time out in the Pacific Northwest, including Glacier National Park — breathtakingly beautiful!!!  If you ever get the chance to go there, GO!!  Also got a chance to see San Juan Islands, Seattle, and Helena, […]

We saw Matthew and his mom today in clinic for his 1 year postop visit after his adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery, doing very well.  Mom then sent me this email, with a picture of Matthew doing a flip off of a water trampoline!!! ———————- Forwarded message ———-From: Kristen Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:52 PMSubject: MatthewTo: […]

Back in December 2010, over 3 years ago, Dr. Rick McCarthy, (an SRS colleague) and I worked together to help Janelle, a 6 yo with a severe 110 degree early onset scoliosis, using an anterior fusion/release followed by the Shilla Technique — a special growing rod technique that Dr. McCarthy has helped develop. Yesterday, I […]