Patient education provided through hyperlinks
Broken bones and injury
- Cast care
- Cast boot instructions
- Elbow fractures in children
- Femur (thighbone) fractures
- Forearm fractures in children
- Growth plate fractures
- Preventing fractures
- Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
- Throwing injuries in the elbow
Diseases and syndromes
- Bowed legs
- Cerebral palsy
- Down syndrome, musculoskeletal effects of
- Erb’s palsy (brachial plexus birth injury)
- Growing pains
- Juvenile arthritis
- Limb length discrepency
- Muscular dystrophy
- Neurofibromatosis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
Foot and ankle
- Calcaneal Apophysitis-Sever’s disease
- Clubfoot
- Flexible flatfoot
- Heel pain
- Intoeing
Hip
- Developmental dislocation (dysplasia) of the hip (DDH)
- Perthes disease
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
- Snapping hip
Knee and leg
Spine and neck
- Back pain in children
- Kyphosis (curvature of the spine)
- Scoliosis in children and adolescents
- Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
- Torticollis, congenital (twisted neck)
Find out more about Pediatric Orthopaedics from the Orthopaedic connection website of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
