This gentleman had several previous surgeries elsewhere, including a pain pump, and still was in severe pain with very poor quality of life.
He came back for his follow-up visit at Hey Clinic after his revision lumbo-sacral iliac wing reconstruction instrumentation and fusion with multilevel complex decompression. He is doing so much better, and has tapered off his major pain medications.
As much as I prefer working with the children and adolescent deformity patients (kyphosis and scoliosis), the older patients are often just as thankful, if not more so.
Lloyd A. Hey, MD MS
http://www.heyclinic.com
Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery
Raleigh, NC USA