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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. We figured that we would

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Uganda Mission Days 6-8

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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 postponed earlier in the week

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Uganda Mission Day 3

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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 patients and children in the

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Orthopedics This Week

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We are very proud to be Texas Back Institute especially this week! On a day to day basis each member of our team makes a difference in our patients lives. It can be something as small as reassuring a patient that their injury should heal on it’s own in time or sometimes can be as big

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Keep Calm and Cheer On…How to Keep our Cheerleaders OK!

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Many may think the safest place for athletes is on the sidelines, however, studies show this isn’t necessarily true anymore. In the 29th Annual CATASTROPHIC SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH report high school cheerleading is accounted for 64.8% of injuries to female athletes and 70.6% at the college level. Many attribute this high injury rate with an increase in

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It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

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The past two months have been the most humbling and exhilarating experiences of my life. As you may have seen in several media stories, hundreds of social media posts and two posts in this blog space, I was honored to be given the opportunity to perform spine surgery on two youngsters from Ethiopia who

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From back pain to Machu Picchu…Lisa Oatman leaves pain in the past!

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On a plain in Africa while on a photo safari, Lisa Oatman’s right foot went numb. Once again, she was experiencing the painful side effects of spinal stenosis, this time far away from her home near Waco, Texas. “I was surprised to have back pain at my age, 50. I always had a back issue

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

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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 the first page of the

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Fantasy Football and the Dream Team at Texas Back Institute

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For anyone who is an avid sports fan, this is a great time of year. The baseball pennant races are full-bore, the college football season has kicked off and the 94th season of the National Football League (NFL) begins on Thursday night, September 5, 2013. Six months later, on February 2, 2014, the NFL season

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Read these tips from Dr. Duffy before the next time you go for a run!

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