One morning, Jackie woke up and she couldn’t move her neck. She wound up having spinal fusion for a herniated disc, but a year after surgery, she hadn’t fully recovered. The doctors she met with told her she would need another fusion, but Jackie wasn’t satisfied with that advice. That’s when she sought out the expertise of HSS for a second opinion. The spine surgeon she met with gave her options that other hospitals hadn’t offered. After surgery at HSS, Jackie has made a full recovery and is bac

An afternoon in the simulation lab at Boston Children’s Hospital helps take some of the mystery and fear out of spinal fusion surgery for patients with severe scoliosis. “Patients are more at ease when they know what to expect,” says Dr. Daniel Hedequist: http://ms.spr.ly/6185TRULB | Boston Children’s Hospital