Valerie, who just turned 13 a few days ago, and has been followed at Hey Clinic by Brittany, one of my wonderful PA’s, for her scoliosis over this past year.  Unfortunately, her curve has progressed significantly, beyond the realm of bracing, and today she had it fixed!   Valerie was a real trooper this morning […]

It has been a few weeks since I have had a chance to catch up with the Spine Blog, although there has a lot of things going on, which I will try to catch up on in the next couple of weeks. I also got a chance to take off for a few days and […]

Yesterday we helped Bob, who had a degenerative scoliosis, spondylolisthesis and spinal stenosis. He is now doing great, postoperative day 1. His son is out in Seattle, and I wanted to send special greetings to you. This Blog is for you! In the afternoon, we helped Todd, who is a 29 yo gentleman with a […]

The answer: “Not Always”. Yesterday we helped a young lady from western NC who had Harrington Rod fusion done years ago for idiopathic scoliosis. She developed back pain and flat back syndrome, and had a surgeon in Tennessee  try to help her with a Dynesys motion-sparing stabilization posteriorly. She really did not improve after that […]

Yesterday I received a very nice hand-written note from Jane, who I had helped with a complex scoliosis correction surgery a year ago. Her reconstruction went from T3 down to the iliac wing, with a multi-level lumbar laminectomy. I was able to perform her surgery through one skin incision, and she had no significant complications […]