Today was the last day of clinic at Hey Clinic for 2007, and there was much Christmas cheer at Hey Clinic. Someone brought in red Christmas hats in for everyone in our clinic, including me, Dr. Hey. I initially declined the opportunity to wear the red hat.  I don’t think I have ever worn a […]

Heather got here early this morning to Duke Raleigh Hospital, with her whole family for her scoliosis surgery. Heather is 17, and was treated in a night brace for a year and a half, but her double curve scoliosis continued to progress. Her surgery today went very well. Her fusion is from T4-L3. Correction was […]

We fixed Chelsea’s right thoracic scoliosis this morning, after taking a bunch of pictures of Chelsea with her family, and many members of our scoliosis team, including Ruth, who does a great job with our evoked potential monitoring. Her surgery took just under 3 hours, and the estimated blood loss (EBL) was 600 cc, with […]

Layla had her scoliosis surgery Monday this week, and got up quickly with physical therapy yesterday, and met all of her goals to go home today! She got her height checked today by the physical therapist, and she is now almost 2 inches taller (1.75 inches). Her posture looks wonderful, and her postoperative X-Ray show […]

Yesterday I operated on a lovely young lady who had a 50 degree thoracolumbar scoliosis with severe imbalance. Today I did a complex spinal reconstruction on a 64 yo woman, who had a non-instrumented spinal fusion done 50 years ago, when she was 14, and now had severe collapse with an almost 90 degree kyphoscoliosis […]