This afternoon we helped a 58 yo gentleman who had a L2-S1 instrumentation and fusion done a year ago up in Baltimore, MD, who has had increasing back and R leg pain and trouble walking over the past year. His...

This morning in surgery we helped a 39 yo gentleman with back and leg pain who had a chronic stress fracture, called a “spondylolysis” across his posterior elements known as the “pars”, of L5.   He had failed conservative therapy, and...

I saw a very unfortunate 9 yo boy in clinic on Friday who was the victim of “Shaken Baby Syndrome” age 7  months, with resultant severe spastic quadriplegia, and some thoracic compression fractures. He has gradually fallen into increasing severe...

Wednesday at Hey Clinic we saw Nell, from New Bern in Clinic.  She had been doing well after multilevel instrumentation and fusion.  However, over the past couple of months, she developed severe lower back pain and difficulty walking.  Her Xrays...

Last week I saw a 6 yo boy with arthrogryposis who was adopted from India by a wonderful couple in Durham, NC. He has a severe R thoracic scoliosis and also severe clubfoot deformity, which has been operated on once...