To highlight Shriners Hospitals' research efforts, we are pleased to present Biomedical Research Highlights. This edition highlights rehabilitation research pertaining to Shriners Hospitals' care disciplines of orthopaedics, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate. Projects in process at our Boston, Canada, Chicago, Erie, Galveston, Northern California and Philadelphia hospitals are presented, including factors that influence the quality of life of children with cerebral palsy, the effects of surgery on children with facial deformities, and determining the effects of Botox on pain during limb-lengthening procedures. Through increased understanding of treatment and rehabilitation techniques, we will ultimately be able to offer more effective treatments that will improve the lives of people around the world.

Note: Clicking on an article title in the Table of Contents will take readers directly to the article.

Clicking on individual bolded or italicized terms within an article will take the reader directly to the Glossary.

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Volume 1:1
April 2007

Volume 1:2
October 2007

Volume 2:1
March 2008