Yesterday, Olivia and her family came back for her scoliosis follow-up.She is a 6 yo girl with scoliosis we are treating in a Boston brace.Her curve has not progressed, and during the appointment she surprised me with a wonderful portrait that she drew during the appointment!She even took the time to write my name carefully […]

> From: "Carol> Date: January 1, 2009 2:05:52 PM EST> To: Dr. Hey> Subject: Pictures from Antarctica>> Hi Dr. Hey,>> As you may recall, you performed a very extensive spinal fusion on > me in March, 2005.>> I have attached two photos of me that my husband took on our recent > trip to Antarctica. […]

One of the best parts of my job is getting a chance to share the postoperative X-Rays with parents and with the scoliosis patients after correcting their spinal deformity.Yesterday we helped Claire from Virginia who had a severe double curve scoliosis, and got a very nice correction.The usual conference room where I meet with families […]

This morning we straightened up Claire, a 14 yo from Richmond Virginia. She had a progressive double curve scoliosis with 58 degree lower curve, and 40 degree upper curve.She came and saw me for a second opinion last month after she was scheduled to have scoliosis surgery with fusion down to L5.Bending films at Hey […]

I saw Leslie back last week.She had MANY spine surgeries done elsewhere, including Dr. Grubb with Grubb hardware.Her story of her surgery is on earlier blogs.Leslie had severe adjacent level failure, with very bad posture and severe mpain.Now she looks great!Take care, Leslie, and thanks for letting us share our photo!——————————Lloyd A. Hey, MD MSHey […]