Pediatrics News

A 6-year-old girl presented with worsening hip pain and an energy inefficient gait pattern (Figure 1 and video).

Published results showed an investigational head and neck cooling device reduced symptom severity for adolescent athletes with a sports-related concussion compared with standard post-concussion care alone.

Results showed patients with cerebral palsy who underwent a single event multilevel surgery had improved gait deviations regardless of age.

A 6-year-old girl presented with worsening hip pain and an energy-inefficient gait pattern.

Results showed 3.9% of pediatric and adolescent patients who underwent ACL reconstruction developed arthrofibrosis; however, skeletally immature patients had significantly lower rates of arthrofibrosis vs. skeletally mature patients.

In this video, Christopher A. Iobst, MD, discussed results from his study on the prevalence of burnout among limb reconstruction surgeons. He advocated for open communication to combat stress and fatigue.

June 3 marks World Clubfoot Day, established in 2013 to raise awareness of clubfoot and to honor Ignacio Ponseti, MD, who developed the Ponseti method, a nonoperative treatment for clubfoot.

In this video, Kevin M. Neal, MD, discussed the relationship between rates of neural axis abnormalities in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and the potential need for neurosurgical intervention.

Osteomyelitis is a microbial infection of the bone. Pediatric osteomyelitis is common and has increased with time.

Regulatory burdens, resource deficits, reimbursement rates and the growing list of day-to-day business responsibilities have catalyzed a trend of private physician practices selling or transitioning to larger hospital settings.