Yesterday I received an awesome thank you note and gift from Lexi and her family. Stephen, our Hey Clinic Videographer, had made a special surgery video for Lexi’s kyphosis surgery, which he recently edited and completed.  Lexi is the teenager from Maryland who plays lacrosse and had the severe kyphosis we fixed for her. Her […]

Well, this week I actually had the week off to get my batteries recharged….. And my first vacation since last August, so boy was I ready! Friday night I was psyched driving home, but still answering some patient calls after staying late in clinic with one of my college scoliosis patients and her mom. Took […]

This gentleman is from out of state. His surgery today went great. Corrected down to kyphosis of 36 degrees, in normal range, using instrumentation and osteotomies. No blood transfused. Surgical time: 4 hr 45 min. Complications none. Good day so far! Did huge scoli Monday and 2 revisions yesterday. Saw huge scoli in clinic yesterday […]

Thanks Annika! Beautiful!!!

Just finished doing a very complex T5-Iliac wing reconstruction for a very pleasant 49 yo woman.  She had a non-instrumented scoliosis fusion as a child, and was left with a large thoracolumbar deformity. She then developed collapse at the levels below, and had an anterior / posterior reconstruction.  She did well quite a while, but […]