Tuesday afternoon, we helped Virginia, who is a 64 yo woman, who came up to see us from Florida (near Sarasota), with severe back pain and trouble walking.  She had a previous L4-S1 noninstrumented fusion done 30+ years ago, and...

Jillian is a delightful, small-framed 17 yo girl with a severe double-curve scoliosis. On Tuesday, I performed a T5-L4 spinal reconstruction for her. Unlike 22 yo Ashley Monday, Jillian’s upper and lower curve were still nice and flexible.  Her ribs...

Monday afternoon we helped Mary, who I had corrected a huge scoliosis 10 months ago. She did very well until a month or so ago, when she took a very severe fall, falling down several stairs. She subsequently developed increasing...

Monday, we helped a 22 yo young lady who had a 78 degree thoracic scoliosis, with some breathing difficulties secondary to decreased pulmonary capacity, exposure to her grandmother’s smoking, with chronic bronchitis, and possibly a mild cystic fibrosis condition.  She...

This past week at Hey Clinic was filled with many wonderful interactions in clinic, and the operating room, and on the hospital floor, and even some travel up to visit Synthes, the instrumentation company that supplies much of our our...