Pediatric Orthopedics

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Broken Bones and Injury

• Elbow Fractures in Children
• Femur (Thighbone) Fractures
• Forearm Fractures in Children
• Growth Plate 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)
• Juvenile Arthritis
• Limb Length Discrepency
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Neurofibromatosis
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Foot and Ankle

• Clubfoot
• Flexible Flatfoot
• Intoeing

Hip

• Developmental Dislocation (Dysplasia) of the Hip (DDH)
• Perthes Disease
• Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE)
• Snapping Hip

Knee and Leg

• Knee Pain, Adolescent Anterior
• Osgood-Schlatter Disease (Knee Pain)

Spine and Neck

• Back Pain in Children
• Kyphosis (Curvature of the Spine)
• Scoliosis in Children and Adolescents
• Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis
• Torticollis, Congenital (Twisted Neck)