Yesterday, Monday November 3rd we helped a 59 yo woman, who works as a nurse manager for a hospital a few hours away who has a several hear history of severe progressive back pain.  She was only recently diagnosed with a severe scoliosis.  She likely had a smaller idiopathic scoliosis, but in her past 10 […]

On Thursday I had the privilege of shadowing Dr. Hey’s surgery on a 40 year old kyphosis patient.  As a pre-med student at NC State I was shocked to receive such an opportunity. My dream is to become a surgeon, and it is not often that a physician is patient enough to take an undergraduate […]

Dear Dr. Hey,                                                       Oct.  2008           I am sorry it has taken me so long to write to you, but I having been too busy enjoying life for the first time in 6 years. I no longer only see my feet and the ground for fear of falling down. Now, when I look outside I see […]

Pauline from West Virginia developed some new sciatica long after a complex scoliosis correction. I found that there was some new foraminal stenosis with some bone ingrowth into the L5 neural foramen that I found on a CT myelogram. I took her back for surgery and did a revision foraminotomy, and she has done just […]

Over the years I have had the pleasure of being interviewed and sometimes filmed by local TV stations, the Discovery Channel, local newspapers, magazines and even the NY Times and Wall Street Journal. But, to date, my favorite interview I have ever given happened yesterday when Rachel, age 8, came in to interview me for […]