This week, my friend and patient Lou, from Pinehurst NC came back for his 10 year anniversary appointment for his scoliosis surgery I performed for him back at Duke Medical Center in Durham. Lou, a retired CEO of a stainless...

We took care of this gentleman last week who had a severe spinal cord compression at C34 with severe arm weakness, including loss of fine motor. About 18 hours after surgery, on the first postoperative day he was showing off...

This afternoon we helped an 82 yo woman with progressive leg pain, and back pain and trouble standing or walking for more than just a couple minutes. She had a collapsing scoliosis with 2 level severe spondylolisthesis with severe stenosis....

Today we saw Nancy and Bob back for 6 week follow-up. Nancy had a severe fracture of T12 with kyphosis, and had broken her rods at the fracture level on 2 occasions, breaking standard rods, and “triple rod” constructs. She...

On Friday, we saw Karen, one of our dearest patients back for follow-up with her mom. She has had an amazing recovery from major thoracolumbar kyphoscoliosis surgery as well as anterior/posterior cervical spine reconstructive surgery for vertebral discitis with severe...