It’s important to have a lot of tools in your toolbox and to know how and when to use them. Preoperative planning is essential, however, “even the best laid plans…

Spinal endoscopy and total disc replacements are where it is at. After 40+ years performing spine surgery I can attest the new technologies of ultra minimally, invasive surgery and motion…

After 40+ years of performing spinal operations and 20 years of performing total disc replacements my observations are that total disc replacement patients do far better than patients with fusions.…

Supposedly when Michelangelo was asked how he carved the statue of David he said he cut away everything that didn’t look like David! In a similar fashion after we have…

Not a one trick pony. Total disc replacements, spinal endoscopy and a pretty darn good cook. A little bit of prep work and about 25 minutes of cooking is all…

Life is motion; motion is life. New technologies, allow levels that used to be welded and fused together to keep moving. Incredibly important for life#therealdrc716 View this post on Instagram…

As technology evolves we will find that the minimally invasive surgeries that have been traditionally performed over the past 10 years will be become less frequent. However, they still work,…

Prior to the advent of instrumentation, people that suffered from collapsing degenerative scoliosis ( our grandparents) had no alternative to chronic severe pain and loss of function . Many of…

Although we make the incisions much smaller than 10 or 20 years ago, modern day, scoliosis surgery is still quite demanding on the patient and the surgeon. This patient underwent…