This past week, as always,  we saw several younger and older adult patients with scoliosis, as well as adolescents and younger children with scoliosis. There were a couple of adult patients, however, that were quite memorable. This patient pictured above...

Today we helped a 60 yo nurse with severe progressive thoracolumbar scoliosis which has increased to 78 degrees recently with severe pain. Procedure:  T4-Iliac wing instrumentation and fusion with L1-5 laminectomy, L3 L4 osteotomies, L5S1 TLIF. Her surgery took approximately...

Zachary is a 9 yo boy who had surgery six days ago at WakeMed in Raleigh NC for severe kyphosis, secondary to brain injury due to “shaken baby syndrome”.  He actually sustained a couple of thoracic fractures at that time,...

Tracy, one of our Hey Clinic associates,  shared with us this week in our weekly Quality Conference, on the meaning of “Compassion”, one of our Core Values. Thanks for sharing from the heart, Tracy! Dr. Lloyd Hey http://www.HeyClinic.com COMPASSION  ...

A few weeks back I had a Blog entry regarding Zachary, a wonderful 9 yo boy, who was the victim of “Shaken Baby Syndrome” as an infant, with severe brain injury and subsequent severe motor and other deficits. He had...