Stapling – A New Scoliosis Fix (written by Biloine Young @ OTW)
A four-year-old California girl, named Grace, is romping about much like any other child her age, thanks to pioneering surgery by University of California-San Francisco orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mohammad Diab. Grace has severe scoliosis and instead of proscribing a heavy torso-covering plastic brace that she would have to wear for 20 hours a day, Diab stapled together several vertebrae in her spine.
As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, while stapling is a temporary fix, it saves the girl from years of wearing a b...
