“Not many adults ask if they’ll be able to ride a roller coaster again after surgery ... with wedged vertebral shape that gets worse and worse,” Newton explains. “With tethering ...

Dr. Amer Samdani was part of the first team to test Vertebral Body Tethering (VBT) for the FDA. Instead of a rod that's used in traditional surgery for scoliosis, VBT uses a flexible tether.