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Research at Shriners - Chicago
More than 300 different and distinct diseases affect the bones, joints and supporting structures, including the ligaments, tendons, and cartilage. Some of these diseases are congenital, others are inherited, and many are both congenital and inherited. For only a handful is the cause presently known.
Shriners Hospitals are at the vanguard of research on these orthopaedic issues, as well as on neurological issues like cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury, craniofacial anomalies and burns. The research budget for Shriners Hospitals for Children - Chicago is $268,081 for the 2006 fiscal year.
Current Projects
Practice management
- Enhancing communication and co-management between specialists and primary care providers: a quality improvement pilot project
- Information literacy for evidence-based nursing practice
- U.S. National Inpatient Healthcare Facility methicillin-resistant staph aureus prevalence
Orthopaedics
- Synthes Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib (VEPTR) and other pediatric scoliosis issues
- Chest wall and spine deformity registry
- The use of convex staple epiphyseodesis to control curve progression in young patients
- The effect on ambulation of instrumentation to the pelvis in ambulatory neuromuscular patients
- Down's syndrome and scoliosis: results of surgical intervention
- Biomechanical assessment of upper extremity dynamics during Lofstrand crutch-assisted gait in children with myelomeningocele
- Prospective pediatric kyphosis study
- Prospective pediatric scoliosis study
- Evaluation of a multi-segment foot and ankle kinematic model for pediatric gait analysis
- Postural stability and gait assessment
- Use of halo traction in large scoliotic curves
- Surgeon bias in the measurement of postoperative scoliosis radiographs
- Assessment of posture and balance in children with diplegic cerebral palsy
- Activity and participation of children with cerebral palsy
- Evaluation of short-term intensive Theratog® garment use in children with cerebral palsy
- Evaluation of assistive devices for better prescription in children with cerebral palsy and myelomeningocele
- Tibial dysplasia in neurofibromatosis
- Nanoindentation, CT, and motion analysis to build a predictive fracture model in children with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
- Natural history and outcomes of treatment of scoliosis in osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
- Expanding femoral nails in children with osteogenesis imperfecta
- Fracture risk prediction in children and adults with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)
- Long-term follow-up of clubfoot releases
- Conservative and surgical clubfoot treatment: a multi-center study
- Radiographic patterns in patients with Klippel-Feil syndrome
- Attitudes toward pediatric orthopedic surgery: a study of Honduran and North American mothers
- Prospective study of pressure ulcers among pediatric orthopedic, burn and spinal cord injury patients
- Effect of epsilon-aminocaproic acid on perioperative blood loss in patients who have undergone posterior spinal fusion
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
- Description and outcomes, especially life satisfaction, of children and adolescents with SCI
- Prevalence of shoulder pain in children with spinal cord injury and its contributing factors
- Estimation of resting energy expenditure in persons with SCI
- Scoliosis in children and adolescents with SCIWORA: factors predictive for curves
- Ambulation and standing in children and adolescents with SCI
- Progressive spinal deformity in pediatric SCI: natural history, functional impact, and effect on self-appraised quality of life of reachable workspace in children with SCI who have spinal deformity
- Pressure ulcers in young people with SCI
- Exercise-based rehabilitation in children and teens with SCI
- International standards for neurological classification of SCI: reliability testing when applied to children and youth
- Effectiveness of full-time prophylactic bracing at preventing or delaying curve progression in paralytic scoliosis secondary to SCI
- Reliability of compliance monitors to assess brace-wearing in children with SCI
- Effectiveness of "no touch" aseptic catheterization technique in reducing hospital-acquired urinary tract infections in children and adolescents with neurogenic bladder
- Reliability of skin risk assessments for pressure unlcers
- Relationship between social participation, quality of life, and psychosocial factors in children and adolescents with SCI and their caregivers
- Improving grasp in tetraplegia
Craniofacial conditions and facial clefts
4/07
Recent Research
Presentations from the December 2006 Howard H. Steel Conference on Injuries and Dysfunction of the Spinal Cord are now available online. Many of these 117 presentations were based on research projects already completed at Shriners Hospitals for Children - Chicago.
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