About the founder

The founder's story.

I was 13 years old when my doctor told me that I needed spine surgery. My surgeon was amazing, but boy did I wish I had a Clinical Companion.

38° → 51°

Curve progression

T2–T11

Fusion level

Age at surgery

Post-operative spinal X-rays showing scoliosis correction with posterior spinal fusion T2 to T11, with Cobb angle measurements annotated before and after surgery — 1. Pre-operative PA spinal X-ray demonstrating idiopathic scoliosis 2. Post-operative PA spinal X-ray showing T2–T11 spinal fusion 3. Post-operative lateral spinal X-ray *Cobb angle measurements annotated before and after surgery.

Where this started

A curve that kept getting worse.

It started at 38 degrees. By the time surgery was scheduled, it had reached 51.

Nobody explained what spinal fusion actually meant for a 13-year-old. I got the clinical version from my doctors and the comforting version from my parents, but neither told me what it would feel like to wake up with rods running from T2 to T11, or how long recovery really takes.

"No one told me what it would actually feel like to wake up in a hospital bed after waking up with two titanium rods and 20 screws running from T2 to T11."

What came after

Going back to answer the questions I never got answered.

When I got the chance to sit with other kids the night before their own spinal surgeries, answering the questions I never got straight answers to—I took it.

That's where this started. Not as a project, but as the thing I wished had existed when it was my turn.

What this is

Not a medical resource. A human one.

Your Clinical Companion isn't run by doctors. It's built by a patient who went through it.

Your doctors will walk you through the procedure. Your parents will handle the logistics. What nobody tells you is what it actually feels like—the fear the night before, the fog of recovery, the moment you realize you're going to be okay. That's what this is for. Patient to patient, no filter.