Today at Duke Raleigh Hospital we helped a 50 yo woman who has had 6 major spinal surgeries done elsewhere for scoliosis and extension fusions.  Her last surgery was several years ago, and extended her fusion down to L5, leaving one remaining disc.  Over the past few years, she had noted severe increasing back and […]

This afternoon we helped a 58 yo gentleman who had a L2-S1 instrumentation and fusion done a year ago up in Baltimore, MD, who has had increasing back and R leg pain and trouble walking over the past year. His CT scan shows stenosis at the 2 levels above hhis existing fusion, and possibly some […]

This morning in surgery we helped a 39 yo gentleman with back and leg pain who had a chronic stress fracture, called a “spondylolysis” across his posterior elements known as the “pars”, of L5.   He had failed conservative therapy, and his pain was greatly affecting his quality of life. His X-Ray shows a slight lucency […]

I saw a very unfortunate 9 yo boy in clinic on Friday who was the victim of “Shaken Baby Syndrome” age 7  months, with resultant severe spastic quadriplegia, and some thoracic compression fractures. He has gradually fallen into increasing severe kyphosis, with increasing difficulty sitting in wheelchair or any chair, and has obvious discomfort now […]

Wednesday at Hey Clinic we saw Nell, from New Bern in Clinic.  She had been doing well after multilevel instrumentation and fusion.  However, over the past couple of months, she developed severe lower back pain and difficulty walking.  Her Xrays showed some severe degeneration below her previous fusion at L5S1, and her CT scan showed […]