Who is Pediatric Orthopaedist?
A pediatric orthopaedist is the best-trained and most experienced doctor to properly evaluate and treat musculoskeletal (bone, joint, or muscle) problems in a child who is still growing. This includes newborn babies through teenagers.
Children are not just small adults. This is especially true when it comes to children's bones and joints, and the problems they can have with their musculoskeletal system. A pediatric orthopaedist is the best-trained and most experienced doctor to properly evaluate and treat bone or joint or muscle problems in a child who is still growing. A pediatric orthopedic surgeon is a doctor who takes care of children with musculoskeletal problems. That means any child with a bone, joint, or muscle problem or disease and certain nerve problems and diseases. If your child has something wrong with his or her arms, legs, hands, feet, or spine, a pediatric orthopaedist is most likely to be the most appropriate doctor to see. Pediatric orthopaedists take care of this. Abnormalities in how children walkDifferences in leg length deformities that are present at birth such as clubfeet and dislocated hips, deformities of hand, neck, and back and feet deformities that develop later in childhood such as crooked legs and curved spines (scoliosis)
A pediatric orthopaedist also takes care of acute problems such as Broken bonesInfections in bones or jointsTumor in bones