Shriner's Hospitals

 
General Pediatric Othopaedics

Shriners treats all kinds of pediatric orthopaedic problems. The most common include:

  • Bone dysplasias, conditions due to abnormal development of the bone tissue
  • Foot conditions such as clubfoot
  • Chest abnormalities such as pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum
  • Hand deformities such as syndactyly and radial club hand
  • Hip conditions such as developmental dislocation of hips, Legg-Perthes and slipped capital femoral epiphyses
  • Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
  • Blount's disease 
  • Limb length discrepancies
  • Limb loss, both congenital and traumatic
  • Metabolic bone disease such as rickets
  • Arthrogryposis
  • Neuromuscular disorders such as complications related to muscular dystrophy
  • Pediatric orthopaedic trauma
  • Poliomyelitis, orthopaedic conditions due to polio

 


 
 
Shriners International Headquarters
2900 Rocky Point Dr. Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 281-0300