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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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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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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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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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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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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Doing well this morning. My morning run today was interesting. A rabid guard dog would not let me pass, he chased me up a hill but thankfully I was able to outrun. Hopefully the surgery day will not be as difficult. Yesterdays patient is doing very well. We are doing the…
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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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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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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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