I heard this heart-warming story on NPR this morning, and found it really encouraging to hear about a woman who worked for 40 years in the surgical instrument room who would pray for each patient who would be needing those surgical instruments that day.  She understood that she played a crucial role on the overall […]

From: FB Date: December 17, 2008 4:49:59 PM EST To: DR. HEY Subject: thanTo the Hey Clinic,ks/happy holidays To the Hey Clinic,   The receptionists, you’re super      The office staff you’re great   The physicians assistants, outstanding   The surgeon, simply the best   The entire clinic really caring about their patients… PRICELESS.   Thanks to all at clinic;  HAPPY […]

————- Lloyd A.  Hey, MD MS Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery Raleigh, NC USA http://www.heyclinic.com Begin forwarded message: From: Jane <@nc.rr.com>Date: December 12, 2008 2:07:37 PM ESTTo: dr. HeySubject: Update My dear, dear Dr. Hey:   Ten years ago, on December 23, 1998, I entered the post op of Duke Medical Center with fear […]

My second surgery today was a 12 yo girl, who had a progressive scoliosis and a large R rib hump. She had a large compensatory lumbar curve that corrected very well with bending films. We subsequently were able to correct her upper curve while sparing her lumbar spine for motion and activities. Her surgery went […]

This morning we helped John, a 20 yo tall college student who had a severe kyphoscoliosis with a 55 degree thoracolumbar curve, and severe hypokyphosis with actually thoracolumbar lordosis.  This hypokyphosis causes his chest to look “sunken in”, which also causes decreased lung volumes. His surgery today went quite well, but was more difficult due […]