My second surgery today was a 12 yo girl, who had a progressive scoliosis and a large R rib hump. She had a large compensatory lumbar curve that corrected very well with bending films. We subsequently were able to correct...

This morning we helped John, a 20 yo tall college student who had a severe kyphoscoliosis with a 55 degree thoracolumbar curve, and severe hypokyphosis with actually thoracolumbar lordosis.  This hypokyphosis causes his chest to look “sunken in”, which also...

Today we helped Alex, a 22 yo woman who I have followed for a couple years with her painful double curve scoliosis. She has spent the past 18 months in Sudan, Africa, and the pain has really gotten bad in...

Yesterday morning, we straightened up Matthew, who is 20 years old with a near 90 degree Scheuermann’s Kyphosis. His surgery took approximately 3 hours, and required no blood transfusions. We used the cell saver as usual, in our laminar flow...