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Spine Kids Scoliosis

Written by Clayton Stitzel
By Maggie Victoria My daughter was diagnosed with scoliosis at the age of 8. She was stable. It was her diagnosis, that sent me to the web because I was not having her journey as mine was; a disaster. She has strongly expressed to me, that there will be no surgery, that she will not live life as I…
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Don’t “watch and wait” until you daughter “needs” scoliosis surgery!

Written by Clayton Stitzel
Please click here to receive a FREE SCOLIOSIS TREATMENT INFORMATION KIT. Every day my office receives requests of information packets on a better way to treat scoliosis than ineffective scoliosis braces and highly invasive scoliosis surgeries.  I respond to each and every one of these requests with a personal email directly from me inquiring about more detailed information, so…

Does scoliosis surgery work?

Written by Dr. Clayton Stitzel
Please click here to receive a FREE SCOLIOSIS TREATMENT INFORMATION KIT ASAP.   Trading deformity for dysfunction*I found the current article in the L.A. Times entitled "Scoliosis Surgery That Is Less Invasive" to be quite informative, but subtly disillusioning. The author painted a gruesome and all-to-accurate picture of the highly invasive surgical fusion surgery some scoliosis patients elect to undergo…
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An innovative technique of vertebral body stapling for the treatment of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a feasibility, safety, and utility study

Written by Dr. Clayton Stitzel
Please click here to receive a FREE SCOLIOSIS TREATMENT INFORMATION KIT ASAP. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective review. OBJECTIVES: To report the feasibility, safety, and utility of vertebral body stapling without fusion as an alternative treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: The success rate of brace treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis ranges from 50% to…
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Vertebral body stapling for Juvenile scoliosis

Written by Dr. Clayton Stitzel
Please click here to receive a FREE SCOLIOSIS TREATMENT INFORMATION KIT ASAP. Thirty-nine consecutive patients have had vertebral body stapling of 52 curves (26 patients with one curve stapled and 13 with two). For the group with patients who were 8 years or older with less than 50 degrees preoperative curve and a minimum 1-year followup, coronal curve…
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Non fusion surgery scoliosis treatment

Written by Dr. Clayton Stitzel
Please click here to receive a FREE SCOLIOSIS TREATMENT INFORMATION KIT ASAP. STUDY DESIGN: Absolute and relative growth modulation of apical spinal segments were measured during creation and correction of an experimental scoliosis in a goat model. OBJECTIVE: To differentiate relative and absolute changes in growth on the concavity and convexity of an experimental scoliosis treated with anterior…
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Fusionless treatment of scoliosis

Written by Dr. Clayton Stitzel
Please click here to receive a FREE SCOLIOSIS TREATMENT INFORMATION KIT ASAP. The recent investigations of convex anterior vertebral body stapling have offered promising early results with use of improved implants and techniques. The use of a shape memory alloy staple tailored to the size of the vertebral body, the application of several staples per level, the instrumentation…
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scoliosis treatment in the growing spine

Written by Dr. Clayton Stitzel
Please click here to receive a FREE SCOLIOSIS TREATMENT INFORMATION KIT ASAP. Progressive scoliosis in the growing child poses a unique challenge. The surgeon aims to attain maximal curve correction while maintaining spinal and thoracic growth. Nonoperative treatments include bracing and serial casting (both with questionable results). The classic surgical treatment has been spine fusion with less than…
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Vertebral Stapling (VBS) for scoliosis

Written by Dr. Clayton Stitzel
Please click here to receive a FREE SCOLIOSIS TREATMENT INFORMATION KIT ASAP. Endoscopic vertebral body stapling is an innovative technique intended to treat adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, but the optimal instrumentation design is not yet established. The objective was to simulate the immediate correction obtained from two stapling configurations. A parametric finite element model of a typical right thoracic…
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scoliosis treatment with spinal staples

Written by Dr. Clayton Stitzel
Please click here to receive a FREE SCOLIOSIS TREATMENT INFORMATION KIT ASAP. Anterior vertebral body stapling is a new minimally invasive technique to correct scoliotic deformities without fusion. In the literature only preliminary reports with short follow-up periods are available. A total of six patients with a minimum follow-up of 2 years were available for examination.  Of…
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