Everything went great. At beginning of posterior surgery, her low back and buttock was flat like a washboard. Now, she has a visible "sway" in that lower area and lordosis is improved by 30 degrees. Ebl: 925 cc total for anterior and posterior. Blood transfused: none. Complications none. Surgical time: around 5 hrs It is […]

She has severe progressive back pain w severe loss of disc height below previous Harrington rod fusion done for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis years ago. II just finished doing the anterior part, removing the narrow degenerative L45 and L5S1 discs, then "jacking up" the disc space back to their original teenage height. I then inserted the […]

I received this encouraging word today from Chrissie, a 34 yo woman who had a very painful L5S1 spondylolisthesis with a pars fracture which really interfered with her quality of life. As shown at the bottom, Chrissie gave her permission to share this note with all of you.   It was really a blessing to see […]

On Valentine’s Day earlier this week, we shared with you the preop and postop x-rays on the 35 yo woman we treated that day for severe collapsing thoracolumbar scoliosis.  This patient had a small thoracolumbar curve during her teenage years, but noted progressive deformity during her adult years that also became increasingly painful. She did […]

Nurse Kelly pointed out a very interesting article today that she found on line this past weekend — a whale with scoliosis!! This is interesting at several levels — First, the whale appears quite sick, which makes you wonder if he/she is symptomatic due to the scoliosis, or it may be interfering with his/her ability […]