Bonnie Wilson is walking tall today, but she suffered with severe scoliosis for years.
"I was bent to one side," Wilson recalled.
She tried everything from nerve blocks to cortisone shots, but the intense back pain persisted.
"They'd always say one to 10 and I'd say 50, 20,” said Wilson. "I don't know. It was terrible. It was off the chart."
Dr. Andrew Cannestra was able to straighten Wilson's back through a two-part surgery using new robot technology known as Mazor Robotics Renaissance Guidance System and a 3D map of the spine.
"It's precise," said Cannestra, neurosurgeon and director of the robotic spine surgery program at Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville. "It's accurate and I can maximize the size of the screw I put in there and that then allows me to exert as much force on the spine as possible to straighten the spine."
Wilson went from a 38 degree curve down to eight degrees.
"She has very close to a normal curvature of her spine," Cannestra said.
Wilson is now an inch taller.
"Clothing fits normally, sitting is normal. I don't have all those muscles getting tired from being leaned one way or the other," Wilson said.
The robot technology can be used to help with other spine conditions like fractures, reconstructive spine surgery, degenerative disc disease and herniated disc. The new technology has also been used for bilateral deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease.
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