Erik comes back to see us from Kentucky after Flat Back Syndrome Surgery at Hey Clinic

During Friday’s clinic, we saw Ekic and his family who drove seven hours (341 miles) from his home in Richmond Kentucky to come back to see us for his one year postop visit.
Erik had a previous scoliosis fusion done years ago, and has had difficulties with flat back syndrome for many years with severe deformity and pain.
You can see his previous blog entries here:
Surgery Sept 15 2009: http://drlloydhey.blogspot.com/2009/09/36-yo-gentleman-from-kentucky-sp.html
Postop Day 1 Sep 15 2009: http://drlloydhey.blogspot.com/2009/09/back-to-my-old-self-standing-3-inches.html
7.5 months postop: http://drlloydhey.blogspot.com/2010/05/fw-eric-37-yo-gentleman-w-flatback-flat.html

In this Blog, 38 yo Eri and his family share their thanks to Hey Clinic and Duke Raleigh Hospital Staff, for his new posture and new life off narcotics and enjoying family again.

Great to see you Erik, and thanks for making the trip to come back and see us!
Take care,

Dr. Lloyd Hey
Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery

"Do you think that laminectomy might have affected my scoliosis?

I think I need to hire a scribe to follow me around all day, to help me capture all of the interesting stories our guests share with us, and what we learn from serving them each day.  The past couple weeks have been filled with lots of great people visiting us from all over.

The woman pictured here was diagnosed with scoliosis as a teenager, but it was considered mild.
She did fine for many years, but about 8 years ago had a minimally invasive microdiscectomy and laminotomy done for a pinched nerve in her lumbar spine.
Soon after that, her posture began to lean to the right and forward, and she developed severe progressive pain and deformity.

Now she walks with quite a limp, and has quite a lean to the right and is quite kyphotic.
Her X-Rays show a severe collapsing double curve kyphoscoliosis and MRI shows severe spinal stenosis in lumbar region.
We can help her with a thoracolumbar sacral iliac wing instrumentation and fusion, with laminectomies and osteotomies, since her quality of life is bad, and getting worse each week.

Early detection and life long follow-up for scoliosis and kyphosis, as well as caution especially when considering laminectomy only in face of deformity are all  helpful suggestions to help prevent severe curve progression and more complex reconstructions, and also prevent lost quality of life days!

Dr. Lloyd Hey
Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery.

Hey Clinic on Breast cancer walk !!!

Over the past several months, Shelbi and others in our office have been
organizing fund-raising and awareness for breast cancer research. We even
created a pink version of our Hey Clinic T-Shirt that we have been giving
out to our guests who made a donation for the American Cancer Society -
"Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" Walk October 1st.

Our Hey Clinic team helped raise over $1,100 for the charity with the help
of many of our Hey Clinic guests who have visited us. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO
EVERYONE WHO HELPED OUT WITH THIS EFFORT. Your donations have been given to
American Cancer Society, and Shelbi, Jimmy and Sue are pictured here for the
actual "Making Strides" Walk held at North Hills, in Raleigh NC. Many
thanks also to the Hey Clinic associates who made this happen.

Most of our families, including my own, have been touched by cancer,
especially breast cancer. Learn more about the event at :

http://sacancernews.org/2010/10/making-strides-against-breast-cancer%C2%AE-e
vent-to-draw-thousands-to-walk-at-north-hills-raleigh-nc/

Dr. Lloyd Hey
Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery
Raleigh, NC
http://www.heyclinic.com

28 Yo woman w painful adolescence idiopathic scoliosis fixed today

Her curve continues to progress as adult.
T5-L2 instrumentation and fusion.
Surgical time 3 h 05 min.
Ebl 750 cc b
Cell saved 245
Blood transfused. None.
Correction: excellent.

Dr. Lloyd Hey
Hey Clinic

54 yo woman w severe lumbar scoliosis and stenosis fixed today