Monday afternoon we helped Mary, who I had corrected a huge scoliosis 10 months ago. She did very well until a month or so ago, when she took a very severe fall, falling down several stairs. She subsequently developed increasing back pain. Her X-Rays and CT confirm that she broke both of her rods near […]

Monday, we helped a 22 yo young lady who had a 78 degree thoracic scoliosis, with some breathing difficulties secondary to decreased pulmonary capacity, exposure to her grandmother’s smoking, with chronic bronchitis, and possibly a mild cystic fibrosis condition.  She had known scoliosis as a teenager, but her parents did not arrange for ongoing follow-up […]

This past week at Hey Clinic was filled with many wonderful interactions in clinic, and the operating room, and on the hospital floor, and even some travel up to visit Synthes, the instrumentation company that supplies much of our our spine hardware. Last Friday, we saw one of our teen-age patients named Sarah, and her […]

I saw a bunch of people back for follow-up appointments on Friday, including this young lady for whom I had performed scoliosis surgery around a year ago.She is doing great, returning to full dance within a few weeks of surgery, and now still looking great and feeling great. Lloyd A Hey, MD MSHey Clinic for […]

I received a nice note from my mother-in-law, Sharon, who I performed an L45 decompression and fusion with instrumentation for a L45 spondylolisthesis with stenosis over 5 years ago. 6 months after her surgery, Sharon and her husband Richard toured the Southwest with us, and hiked the Grand Canyon. The following summer,  Sharon and Richard […]