At Hey Clinic, we see quite a few young children with congenital scoliosis, some of whom have other congenital abnormalities like heart disease, kidney disease, or other extremity or neurologic abnormalities.  For many children, congenital scoliosis is not a big...

Ben, 18, several months postop from scoliosis surgery One of the common questions we get from our adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and kyphosis patients and parents, as well as our adult patients and some of our early onset scoliosis patients is this:...

There is no doubt that we would always like to PREVENT the progression of scoliosis in adulthood before it gets to the point that it causes a significant drop off in quality of life as well as posture and appearance,...

This past Tuesday we took care of Kellie and her mom from West Hartford, CT.  Kellie is 26, and has had an adolescent scoliosis which has progressed and become painful as an adult.  She flew down for a consultation a...

At the end of last week, I traveled to New Orleans for the North American Spine Society (NASS) meeting down in New Orleans, and then got a chance to have lunch with Benjamin's parents in Baton Rouge, LA.  Benjamin is...