It is not unusual for parents of children with either chronic diseases or chronic pain to have difficulties themselves. As parents, we want to protect our children and we feel that we should. When our children hurt, we hurt, and sometimes our reactions may not seem logical.

Each couple's dynamics are different but it's important for both parents to be on the same wavelength when it comes to helping a child who has chronic pain, such as your son. It's known that how a parent reacts to a child's pain will affect the child and it's been suggested that if a parent copes negatively with the situation, the child may as well.

Parenting a child who is living with chronic pain can be a difficult task. As a parent, you feel as if you must be able to help your child at all costs, especially removing something that is causing illness or pain. Sadly, this isn't always possible and it can make a parent feel helpless, leading to other issues down the road.

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.