Musculoskeletal Key

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Pediatric neurologic disorders present unique challenges. At a very young age, bone is highly plastic. Imbalance of muscle forces (spasticity and weakness) acting on bones and…

BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Congenital Heart Disease versus Coronary Artery Disease The term “heart disease” in children is a bit of a misnomer. Adult coronary heart disease is typically acquired…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen … in the first decade the most important priority is function, in the second appearance and in the third and subsequent decades the avoidance of pain….

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Children with special health care needs (SHCNs) represent a growing population of patients with unique needs and are important from a health care services and policy…

OVERVIEW OF MOVEMENT DISORDERS Print Section Listen Movements disorders are neurologic syndromes that involve impaired performance of voluntary movements, dysfunction of posture, the presence of abnormal involuntary movements, or the…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen As in adults, the use of electrodiagnostic studies in pediatric patients provides an extension of the neurologic examination facilitating evaluation of the physiology of the neuromuscular…

INTRODUCTION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY Print Section Listen Over 75,000 children (ages 0–19 years) were diagnosed with cancer between 2010 and 2014 in the United States. Of these, leukemias and lymphomas were…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The incidence of childhood disability has increased dramatically over the past half a century from approximately 3% in 1969 to 15.1% in 2009.1,2 This dramatic increase…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The intent of this chapter is to highlight special topics as they pertain to the prescription of prosthetics and orthotics in the pediatric population; for an…