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Expert Pediatric Care
Shriners Hospital for Children in Chicago provides comprehensive medical, surgical and rehabilitative care for children with orthopaedic conditions, craniofacial conditions, and spinal cord injuries, including:
- Spine conditions such as scoliosis, kyphosis, and spondylolisthesis
- Thoracic insufficiencies due to skeletal deformities (VEPTR: Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib)
- Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
- Myelodysplasia due to abnormal development of the spine such as spina bifida
- Bone dysplasias, conditions due to abnormal development of the bone tissue
- Limb length discrepancy
- Amputations/prosthetics
- Neuromuscular disorders such as complications related to muscular dystrophy
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Blount's disease
- Arthrogryposis
- Cerebral palsy
- Foot conditions such as clubfoot
- Hip conditions such as developmental dislocation of hips, Legg-Perthes and slipped capital femoral epiphyses
- Metabolic bone disease such as rickets
- Pediatric orthopaedic trauma
- Poliomyelitis, orthopaedic conditions due to polio
- Chest abnormalities such as pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum
- General pediatric orthopaedic conditions
- Hand deformities such as syndactyly and radial club hand
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
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Shriners Hospitals for Children in Chicago provides comprehensive team evaluation, treatment coordination, and surgical services for children with facial defects, deformities or injuries, including:
- Reconstructive plastic surgery
- Cranio-maxillo-facial surgery
- Microsurgery
Services are available to children with conditions including:
- Cleft lip, palate and other facial clefts, birth deformities involving the skull and face
- Maxillofacial surgery, developmental deformities of the jaw requiring orthognathic surgery
- Hemifacial microsomia
- Craniofacial deformities
- Apert/Crouzon/Pfeiffer Syndrome
- Treacher Collins Syndrome
- Ear deformities
- Microtia
- Breast deformities
- Congenital pigmented nevi
- Facial nerve paralysis
- Hemangiomas and vascular malformations
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| The goal of the Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) program at the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Chicago is to assist each child with a SCI to reach his/her optimal level of health and independence, in the home, at school and in the community.
Medical, surgical and rehabilitative services include:
- Surgical management of acute spinal or extremity fractures
- Surgical and orthotic management of orthopaedic complications
- Restorative hand surgery
- Pediatric management and care of medical complications
- Rehabilitative care
- Urological management
- Neurosurgical management of spinal cord injury
- Plastic surgical care of pressure ulcers
- Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)
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Recognizing that the family plays a vital role in a child's ability to overcome an illness or injury, Shriners Hospitals for Children helps families provide the support their children need by involving families in all aspects of the child's care and recovery.
Our purpose is to provide the best in care to children with orthopaedic problems, spinal cord injuries, and craniofacial conditions, to help them lead fuller, more productive lives. By promoting the importance of the family and strengthening the support system for the child, Shriners Hospitals for Children can accomplish its purpose more effectively.
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