Joint infection called infectious arthritis or septic arthritis can be cause for hospitalization. Early diagnosis and teatment is important for successful results. Antibiotics and surgical drainage are the gold standard for this condition. Without adequate treatment, complications can occur.

Most people are familiar with strep throat or a staph infection in children. But these bacteria can enter the bloodstream and travel throughout the body. For some as yet unknown reason, the bacteria take up residence in the joints and cause a septic (infectious) arthritic response.

There are many advantages of the updated digitized and computerized technology used to measure scoliosis (curvature of the spine) compared with standard X-rays. In both methods, a measurement called the Cobb angle is determined.

You raise a valid concern about intraobserver and interobserver reliability. Intraobserver reliability refers to how well one person can make the same measurement more than once. Interobserver reliability is the accuracy of those measurements when more than one person measures the same thing.

Patient satisfaction surveys are becoming more and more common all the time. Hospital administrators, insurance companies, and even surgeons want some way to measure the results of the procedures performed. Patient satisfaction and quality of life ratings can be ways to measure success.

Blount disease is a condition of bowlegged knees, also known as tibia vara in medical lingo. Surgical correction aims to create a more normal angle between the lower end of the femur (thigh bone) and the upper portion of the tibia (lower leg bone). Children with Blounts disease often need surgery to restore normal knee alignment and reduce pain. The result is decreased disability and improved function.

Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a common disorder affecting infants and young children. In this condition, there is a disruption in the normal relationship between the head of the femur (thigh bone) and the acetabulum (hip socket). DDH can affect one or both hips. It can be mild to severe. In mild cases called unstable hip dysplasia, the hip is in the joint but easily dislocated. More involved cases are partially dislocated or completely dislocated.

It sounds like you are describing the Pavlik harness, first designed and used by Dr. Arnold Pavlik in the 1940s. It's not exactly new, but it's not from the dark ages, either. In fact, it's been around long enough to show how successful it really is. Success rates range from 61 per cent up to 99 per cent. The harness has become the number one treatment choice for babies birth to three months old.

Children with Blount disease often need surgery to restore normal knee alignment and reduce pain. The result is decreased disability and improved function. Blount disease is a condition of bowlegged knees, also known as tibia vara in medical lingo. Surgical correction aims to create a more normal angle between the lower end of the femur (thigh bone) and the upper portion of the tibia (lower leg bone).

Sixty years ago, Dr. Arnold Pavlik designed a special harness for the treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). It is still in use today as the number one choice for this condition in babies.