Pediatric Orthopaedics
From birth through the adolescent years, the Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center has the expertise and skill to enhance your child's quality of life.
Beginning with the congenital conditions that affect the musculoskeletal system, such as clubfoot and developmental hip dysplasia, and proceeding into the toddler years will all the fractures they experience, Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center surgeons can treat your child.
More children are playing sports at a younger age and doing so on a year-round basis, leaving them susceptible to overuse injuries. Many of these conditions can be prevented or treated with proper training and stretching. Children are also subject to unique injuries to their bones because of a structure known as a growth plate. Injury to this structure - a growth plate fracture - can result in shortening or angular deformity of the arm or leg.
Adolescents playing sports are experiencing devastating injuries that require reconstructive surgery. Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center surgeons can perform multi-ligament reconstructions, including:
- Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)
- Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL)
- Medial collateral ligament (MCL)
- Lateral collateral ligament (LCL)
We can also repair meniscal tears and osteochondritis dissecans.
Pediatric orthopaedic specialist Paul R. Fleissner, Jr., M.D. is on the cutting edge of research, preparing a study on a technique to enhance healing after ACL reconstruction surgery.
Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center surgeons have the technical expertise to perform surgery in a way that may allow their patients to be back on the field sooner than ever before.
And the beauty of the Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center is that as your children transition into adulthood, their medical care can seamlessly transition to one of our other Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center specialists. There is no need to transfer to an entirely different practice.
Schedule an appointment with a pediatric orthopaedic specialist here.