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Expert Pediatric Orthopaedic Care

The Shriners Hospitals for Children® — Honolulu is 24 bed pediatric orthopaedic hospital providing comprehensive orthopaedic care to children. The hospital is one of 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children® throughout North America.

The hospital is equipped and staffed to care for children with congenital orthopaedic issues, problems resulting from orthopaedic injuries, and diseases of the bones, joints and muscles. The Honolulu Shriners Hospitals for Children® also treats patients with healed burns who, as a result of those burns, may have developed orthopaedic complications, scarring and deformity of the limbs.

The diagnoses list below contains some of the common orthopaedic problems treated at the Honolulu Shriners Hospitals for Children®.

  • Amniotic band syndrome
  • Arthritis
  • Arthrogryposis
  • Burn scars
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Clubfoot
  • Femoral anteversion
  • Femoral retroversion
  • Foot deformities
  • Fractures (Non-Emergent)
  • Genetic syndromes
  • Hand deformities
  • Hip dysplasia/dislocation
  • Infection of joint
  • Kyphosis
  • Legg Perthes
  • Limb deficiency, (Acquired or Congenital)
  • Limb discrepencies
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Neuromuscular disorders
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta
  • Osteomyelitis
  • Polio residuals
  • Scoliosis
  • Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
  • Spina bifida (related orthopaedic issues only)
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
  • Sports medicine (non-urgent)
  • Syringomeyelia
  • Tar Syndrome
  • Tethered cord
  • Tibial torsion
  • Torticollis
  • Tumors and cysts of the bone (benign)

Family-Centered Care

Recognizing that the family plays a vital role in a child's ability to overcome an illness or injury, Shriners Hospitals for Children® helps the family provide the support the child needs by involving the family in all aspects of the child's care and recovery.

Our purpose is to provide care to children with orthopaedic problems and burn injuries to help them lead fuller, more productive lives. By promoting the importance of the family and helping it become a stronger support system for the child, Shriners Hospitals for Children® can accomplish its purpose more effectively.

Patient care departments work as a team to provide high quality care and assist a child to gain as much independent functioning as possible.