A few weeks back I had a Blog entry regarding Zachary, a wonderful 9 yo boy, who was the victim of “Shaken Baby Syndrome” as an infant, with severe brain injury and subsequent severe motor and other deficits. He had a couple of thoracic fractures at that time, and has developed a huge kyphoscoliosis to […]

Carolyn is a delightful 64 yo woman from Georgia who had an L3-S1 posterior instrumentation and fusion performed elsewhere, who suffers with flat back syndrome, with low back pain and trouble walking. Her X-Rays and CT scan suggest possible pseudarthrosis at the L5S1 level, where she also has an anterior spondylolisthesis.  Her lumbar lordosis preop […]

This afternoon, we helped a 70 yo woman, who had a fall back in July with increasing back pain. Her husband had been noticing some increasing kyphosis over past couple of years. After the fall this July, she started to have severe debilitating back pain. A week ago, she had vertebroplasty done for fracture at […]

This week, my friend and patient Lou, from Pinehurst NC came back for his 10 year anniversary appointment for his scoliosis surgery I performed for him back at Duke Medical Center in Durham. Lou, a retired CEO of a stainless steel company, really took me by surprise during our initial meetings. After he had decided […]

We took care of this gentleman last week who had a severe spinal cord compression at C34 with severe arm weakness, including loss of fine motor. About 18 hours after surgery, on the first postoperative day he was showing off to my 2 physician assistants how strong his pinch grip had improved overnight. He went […]