Dr. Isador Lieberman, Orthopedic Spine Surgeon at Texas Back Institute talks about scoliosis and how to determine if you have scoliosis. Definition: Scoliosis is a sideways bend and rotation of the spine. Scoliosis can progress in children or teenagers as they grow, or in adults can progress from age related…
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A selfless spine specialist at the renowned Texas Back Institute travels halfway around the world every year with a team of dedicated volunteers to Ethiopia to perform some of the most complex spine surgeries in the most challenging of circumstances. For his relentless pursuit of life-changing surgery to patients who…
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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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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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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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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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