This woman had severe progressive difficulties standing and walking with a collapsing lumbar scoliosis and stenosis. She did very well with her surgery yesterday, with almost immediate relief of her severe sciatica in L leg postoperatively. Her surgery took a little over 3 hours, with 3 level laminectomy, and T12-Iliac Wing instrumentation and fusion. She […]

This young boy with severe spastic quadriplegia and history of thoracic fractures did very well after kyphosis surgery several months ago, but then developed increased pain and deformity due to a compression fracture in his lumbar spine. I revised and extended his instrumentation and fusion down to the iliac wings bilaterally. His surgery went very […]

Andrea and her mom were back for postoperative follow-up for her kyphosis correction I performed for her. She has had other Blog entries earlier this year, with her dramatic change in posture, as well as quality of life as a teen-ager. She actually did a several month project for an English class that included a […]

I had seen this 30 yo woman years ago at Duke, and had recommended surgery, since she had documented progressive scoliosis, and had increasing pain. However, at that time she was not ready for surgery. Since then, she has had another child, her third, and her pain has gotten worse as well as her posture. […]

Heather had her scoliosis surgery back on August 20th this year. She’s 12 years old, and had a severe double curve. Postoperatively, she did just great, and was able to start school 2 weeks after her surgery. Her posture is now excellent, and she is not having any significant pain, and is back to all […]