Pediatrics News

Adults with a history of Osgood-Schlatter disease are at high risk for lateral patellofemoral maltracking and high-grade patellofemoral chondrosis, according to published results.

Published results showed adolescent patients and their parents reported different concerns and decision regret regarding surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

Results showed between 50 and 75 pitches is likely appropriate for 10-year-old pitchers, with changes in flexor wad fatigue and an increase in subjective fatigue throughout the pitching session.

Healio LIVE announced Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2021, which was scheduled for January 2021 in Maui, Hawaii, will be rescheduled to later in the year.

A previously healthy 11-year-old girl presented to the orthopedic clinic with a 6-month history of “popping” when she bends her right knee. This mechanical symptom worsened with time.

Patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis who received a short course of postoperative steroids after posterior spinal fusion had decreased opioid use and no increase in wound complications, according to published results.

A young patient with “snapping” on the lateral aspect of her symptomatic knee is shown intraoperatively.

Head-at-risk signs, such as Gage’s sign and metaphyseal cysts, are risk factors that may predict poor prognoses in pediatric patients with Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease, according to presented results.

With positive long-term outcomes, an “over the top” ACL reconstruction technique is a safe and feasible treatment strategy for pediatric patients with ACL ruptures and open physes, according to presented results.

Recent expansion of and advancements in 3D imaging have allowed radiologists and orthopedic surgeons to increasingly work in tandem to better treat patients with a variety of musculoskeletal conditions.