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September 13, 2019 | Texas Back Institute

Uganda Spine Mission

Uganda Spine Mission Day 5 By Erin Sadler Day 5 – Finding Our Stride Today was another day of surgery at both Mulago and Case Hospitals. The team at Mulago came up with a strategy the previous evening to try to circumvent the resistance of the Mulago staff from doing two cases in one day….

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September 13, 2019 | Texas Back Institute

Uganda Mission Day 3

Day 3- August 16th The morning began with a trip to the warehouse where tens of thousands of dollars of medical supplies were waiting for us. VeAhavta, a humanitarian organization based out of Toronto, organized and delivered a 40-foot container also containing 200 Kinder Kits, bags of school supplies for our spine…

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September 13, 2019 | Texas Back Institute

Featuring “Super” Dr. Izzy and his “super hero” team

Recently Dr. Lieberman, the scoliosis and spine tumor expert at Texas Back Institute was featured on the cover of the MD News magazine.  Did you see it? Not only did MD News put Dr. Lieberman on the cover of the issue, they also did a spread inside the magazine.  Here’s…

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September 13, 2019 | Texas Back Institute

Dr. Lieberman and the NYC Marathon

You may know by now that we really like to share some of the cool things our doctors, here at Texas Back Institute, do when they aren’t in clinic or in surgery.  Well today is no different.  We want to share a story about Dr. Lieberman (or as he likes…

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August 19, 2019 | Phillip Slaughter

Uganda Spine Surgery Mission 2019- Day 5

It’s Go Time! August 13, 2019 Day 5   We started the day today with another 6:00am wakeup call, at breakfast by 6:30am. I would say we definitely loaded up for our first day of surgery; French toast, bread, marble cake, potatoes, eggs, we ate it all. We loaded up…

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December 28, 2017 | Texas Back Institute

Media Coverage for new SpineAssist surgical robot

Hi Texas Back friends. As some of you may know we have been working really hard to get the word out about our new scoliosis and spine tumor program as well as one of only 3 spine surgical  robots. This robot has been a long time in the making and…

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December 28, 2017 | Texas Back Institute

Uganda Mission – photo update

Hi Spine Place friends!  Well Dr. Lieberman is back at work this week in Plano after his two-week spine mission trip to Uganda.  This is the 5th year that Dr. Lieberman has been to Uganda and it’s amazing to see the impact he has out there.  Here are the first…

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December 28, 2017 | Texas Back Institute

Dr. Lieberman receives the sixth annual HVO Golden Apple Award

Did you know yesterday was World Health Day? World Health Day is celebrated annually by the World Health Organization and the international community.  Since 1950, it has been held each year on April 7th and focuses on a relevant global health issue.   What’s really exciting about this is that Health Volunteers Overseas…

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December 28, 2017 | Texas Back Institute

Uganda Spine Mission Day 2

DAY 2 – August 15th: At 7:30am, two full vans left home for Mulago and Case Hospitals. The plan for the day was ambitious: 4 surgeries and a spine clinic. As we entered the Mulago government hospital, jaws dropped at the overcrowded, unsanitary, poorly maintained and undersupplied orthopaedic ward and…

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December 28, 2017 | Texas Back Institute

Uganda Mission Day 5

DAY 5 – Thursday August 18th: At Case, things were running like clockwork. The surgical patient was a 50 year-old female agricultural field worker with neck and lower back pain that rendered her unable to work. She also had numbness of fingers and toes. She was disabled by spinal stenosis,…

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