Just finished doing a very complex T5-Iliac wing reconstruction for a very pleasant 49 yo woman.  She had a non-instrumented scoliosis fusion as a child, and was left with a large thoracolumbar deformity. She then developed collapse at the levels...

Everything went great. At beginning of posterior surgery, her low back and buttock was flat like a washboard. Now, she has a visible "sway" in that lower area and lordosis is improved by 30 degrees. Ebl: 925 cc total for...

She has severe progressive back pain w severe loss of disc height below previous Harrington rod fusion done for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis years ago. II just finished doing the anterior part, removing the narrow degenerative L45 and L5S1 discs, then...

I received this encouraging word today from Chrissie, a 34 yo woman who had a very painful L5S1 spondylolisthesis with a pars fracture which really interfered with her quality of life. As shown at the bottom, Chrissie gave her permission...

On Valentine’s Day earlier this week, we shared with you the preop and postop x-rays on the 35 yo woman we treated that day for severe collapsing thoracolumbar scoliosis.  This patient had a small thoracolumbar curve during her teenage years,...