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Treatment
Physical Therapy with an External Fixator
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/Pediatric-Care/Physical-Therapy-with-an-External-FixatorPhysical therapy combined with an external fixator (EXFIX) can help create the best quality of life for a child treated at Shriners Children's for a limb length discrepancy.
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News
"She Looks Just Like Me"
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/09/She-looks-just-like-meBella, 11, has been a patient of the Spokane Shriners Hospital since she was only 9 days old. As a newborn, she was treated for clubfoot, a condition that causes a newborn’s foot or feet to be rotated inward.
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Podcast
Recreational Therapy and Child Life
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Podcasts/2021/06/Recreational-Therapy-and-Child-LifePodcast to help you prepare your child for hospital visits, plus info on adaptive sports and art therapy.
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Podcast
The Opioid Epidemic and the Pediatric Population
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Podcasts/2019/04/The-Opioid-Epidemic-and-the-Pediatric-PopulationPodcast with Dr. Ellen Raney explaining how the ongoing opioid epidemic affects the pediatric population, as well as different approaches for pain management that physicians are using when dealing with children in pain.
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Patient Story
One year without losing hope
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/08/Un-ao-sin-perder-la-esperanzaMedical discharge of one of our patients after almost a year of being hospitalized in several occasions.
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Patient Story
Teen Recovers in Pediatric Rehabilitation Program
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2021/01/Teen-recovers-in-pediatric-rehabilitation-programKnowing Jalen needed a pediatric rehabilitation medical team for intense physical therapy, her doctors recommended care at Shriners Hospitals for Children — Northern California.
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Patient Story
Young Patient Takes Her First Steps Thanks to New Prosthetic Leg
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2021/01/Young-patient-takes-her-first-steps-thanks-to-new-prosthetic-legReferred to Lauren Hyer, M.D., at the Greenville Shriners Hospital through a Facebook support group when Taylor was 8, Rachel said the experience has been “absolutely life-changing.”
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Patient Story
Successful Chest Wall Reconstruction Allows Patient to Pursue His Dreams
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/08/Successful-chest-wall-reconstruction-allows-patient-to-pursue-his-dreamsZachary's proper diagnosis of a rare chest wall condition, Currarino-Silverman syndrome, leads to reconstructive surgery that changes his life.
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Patient Story
What Will the X-ray Say?
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/10/What-will-the-X-ray-sayRebecca is understandably nervous. In less than a week, she will travel the 29 miles from her St. Peters, Missouri, home with her 13-year-old son, Joey, to Shriners Hospitals for Children — St. Louis for his yearly follow-up. Joey will leave his mom in the waiting room, and a radiology technician wi...
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Patient Story
Lucy's Story
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/11/Lucys-storyThirteen-year-old Lucy’s journey with the Boston Shriners Hospital began in 2018, when she suffered second and third degree burns over 28% of her body due to a hot water accident while on vacation in Maine.
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