This afternoon we helped an 82 yo woman with progressive leg pain, and back pain and trouble standing or walking for more than just a couple minutes. She had a collapsing scoliosis with 2 level severe spondylolisthesis with severe stenosis. She underwent a L2-5 decompression and fusion this afternoon, and is doing well now postoperatively. […]

Today we saw Nancy and Bob back for 6 week follow-up. Nancy had a severe fracture of T12 with kyphosis, and had broken her rods at the fracture level on 2 occasions, breaking standard rods, and “triple rod” constructs. She was not willing to undergo an anterior-posterior reconstruction. I wrote a long Blog a few […]

On Friday, we saw Karen, one of our dearest patients back for follow-up with her mom. She has had an amazing recovery from major thoracolumbar kyphoscoliosis surgery as well as anterior/posterior cervical spine reconstructive surgery for vertebral discitis with severe myelopathy with severe quadriparesis. It was a long, tough battle, and at times seemed fairly […]

We saw Craig and his dad back for follow-up just a few months after his scoliosis surgery this past summer. He is back to school, doing well, and obtained a very good scoliosis correction and final appearance. Lloyd A. Hey, MD MS Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery Raleigh, NC USA http://www.HeyClinic.com

Andrea emailed me her story and some photos about her experience with kyphosis surgery earlier this year for me to share with you on the Blog. Kyphosis is much less well known in the general public, and among many pediatricians and other primary care providers and OB/GYN physicians.  It can be more difficult to pick […]