Megan Johansen was diagnosed with scoliosis at age nine.

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When her fourth child turned three years old, her spine collapsed to a 90-degree bend. “I couldn’t breathe,” Johansen said, “and I was starting to have really bad heart palpitations where it just felt like it was going to be beating out my chest or it would just, like, seize up.”

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She knew she finally needed surgery. Surgeons at Barrow Neurological Institute use CT and MRI scans to make 3D models of patients’ spines before surgery. “We know how to print these spines in such a way that we’ll get the same tissue quality in the spine and the same biomechanical performance of the spine model as we would expect to in the patient,” said Dr. Michael Bohl , the founder and director of the Barrow Neurological Institute. That really helps with complicated cases, like Johansen’s. Her pedicle […]

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