3.4 cm Preop trunk shift to right. Surgery time: 3 hrs 25 min. Blood transfused: none. Complications: none. Correction: excellent. Mom and patient will be psyched w the correction! We did similar curve yesterday in 67 Yo who dis well and saw 26 Yo w sMe curve w severe pain after 3 pregnancies with progression […]

Mildred had a 52 degree Thoracolumbar degenerative and idiopathic scoliosis. She was treated down in Florida w 2 level X-Stops. We fixed her today T5-iliac wing w L5S1 TLIF, osteotomies, laminectomies. You could really see the severe nerve pinch on the R side which I fixed by thorough "roti-rooter" and distraction of those foramen. That […]

This morning we helped Magnolia who had a severe lumbar spinal stenosis with L45 spondylolisthesis. Her surgery went well. Today we had Charlotte with us in surgery — an NC State Honors student interested in going into medicine (Pre-Med). Charlotte is doing a one month internship @ Hey Clinic, and is doing a great job […]

Recently I saw Gail back for follow-up for her flat back syndrome revision surgery.  She was doing great, but told me that she never saw her Blog entry that she wrote up several months earlier and emailed to me.  My Bad!  I get quite a few emails every day, and do my best to handle […]

We had a really good and busy week at Hey Clinic. Last weekend, I got a chance to see my folks and sister and her family up in Pennsylvania, and also see many old friends at my high school reunion up in Long Island – New York.    Best part was seeing my old friend Colin, […]