Orthopedics

Orthopedics by the Numbers

By Primary Children's Hospital July 21, 2014 Leave a comment

The world of pediatric orthopedics has come a long way since the days of heavy, archaic leg braces as seen in Forrest Gump. Now, its people’s perceptions of orthopedic medicine that have to catch up, says Dr. Alan Stotts, Orthopedic Surgeon at Primary Children’s Hospital. From the most basic orthopedic problems, to the most complex […]

How the VEPTR Device Improves Lives for Patients with TIS

By Primary Children's Hospital July 11, 2014 Leave a comment

Advances in medical technology continue to open new possibilities for more effective treatments for all types of conditions. One of these innovations has dramatically improved care for children with thoracic insufficiency syndrome (TIS), a congenital condition in which severe deformities of the chest, spine, and ribs prevent normal breathing, lung growth, and lung development. In […]

A Healthy Look at Bone Tumors

By Primary Children's Hospital July 2, 2014 Leave a comment

At the turn of the 20th Century there was a large-scale scientific study that focused on the benefits to growing children of adding fluoride to drinking water. As anticipated, the study showed that approximately one in three children involved in the study had a non-ossifying fibroma (a kind of tumor) in their bones. To avoid […]

Story Lines: Orthopedic Experts Help Evey’s Spine

By Primary Children's Hospital June 3, 2014 Leave a comment

by Cally Johnson, Evey’s Mom Draper, UT At three months old, our daughter, Evey, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder called 17q21.31 microdeletion syndrome (or Koolen De Vries syndrome). As part of her disorder, Evey has many physical anomalies. Throughout the first year of her life, these created many challenges and she had several […]

From Break to Cast Removal: Dealing With Childhood Fractures

By Primary Children's Hospital May 19, 2014 Leave a comment

There seems to be no limit to the ways that kids find to break their bones, from common ways like launching off a trampoline or slipping on the monkey bars to more mundane things like tripping over an untied shoelace or falling out of bed. No matter how a bone is broken, it’s essential to a […]