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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 Days 6-8

DAYS 6-8 – Friday-Sunday August 18-20: At the end of this long week, these three mystical days seemed to blend together into one. On the spinal side of things, the mission team split up so some could stay for the surgery on I.K., a 64 years-young female patient who was…

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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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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

Uganda Mission – Dr. Lieberman’s Spine Surgery Mission: Update 1

We got to Uganda safely and the team is awesome! Sherron, a surgical nurse from Ft Lauderdale has tremendous spine experience and is calm and so resourceful. Lori, a PA from Texas Back Institute, has an infectious vibrant personality. John, a med student from Akron, is eager to learn. Cori,…

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December 28, 2017 | Texas Back Institute

Uganda Mission – Update

August 13th 10am The team is just setting up for our first idiopathic scoli case, a 14 year female with about a 60 degree curve. One thing I have noticed with this trip is the pace. I believe I have learnt from past trips and carried through on this trip that the…

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December 28, 2017 | Texas Back Institute

Uganda Mission – Day 6, 7 and 8

Aug 14 & 15, 2010 The weekend, Day 6 & 7 Saturday we started with a ward round seeing the patients. Thankfully all were doing well. Naturally they were not enthused to see me especially when it came to changing the dressings. There is no way to comfortably take a…

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December 28, 2017 | Texas Back Institute

Uganda Mission – August 16th 4:30pm

Spectacular case! All went well and we achieved a tremendous correction. As I had expected this was not TB but a congenital kyphosis at L1/L2 with a wedge vertebrae. The team was all excited about the case, everyone was involved and learned something new! Lori learned that Gellpie retractors were designed to fit around a 3…

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December 28, 2017 | Texas Back Institute

Uganda Mission – Wrap up day

August 19th, 1pm Yesterdays surgery was on a 50+ year young paralyzed female with treated Tuberculosis of the spine with multilevel bone destruction. We treated her with a posterior segmental instrumentation from T4 to T12. We operated at Mulago and two of the local residents scrubbed in with Lori and I…they…

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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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