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News
First in Chicago to Offer New Lightweight Prosthetic Partial Hand for Teenagers
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/11/First-in-Chicago-to-offer-new-lightweight-prosthetic-partial-hand-for-teenagersThe Prosthetic and Orthotic Services (POPS) department now offers a lighter-weight hand prosthetic for teens. Shriners Hospitals is the first hospital in Chicago to offer the M-Fingers carbon fiber technology specifically designed to fit children.
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News
Do you know what pollicization is?
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/11/Sabes-qu-es-la-pulgarizacinPollicization is currently one of the procedures performed quite frequently at Shriners Hospital. This procedure consists in converting one of the fingers of the hand into a thumb for patients who are unfortunately born without this finger, or that have lost their thumb due to some type of trauma. T...
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Patient Story
Rickey's Story
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/11/Rickeys-storyTeen is inspired to become a doctor after life changing care at Boston Shriners Hospital.
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Rewriting Their Stories
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/11/Rewriting-their-stories“Mama Amy” is Amy Nicholas, an Arnold, Missouri, resident who, along with her husband, Greg, has served as host parent to five children from across the world over the past three years. She is one of three host mothers currently shepherding international children through surgeries and follow-up physi...
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Patient Story
Back to the Beautiful Music
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/11/Back-to-the-beautiful-musicJasmine nestles her viola underneath her chin and takes a deep breath. The 11-year-old Evansville, Indiana, girl can get lost in the moment while making music. Thanks to recent surgery at Shriners Hospitals for Children — St. Louis, she now can do so without pain.
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News
'POPS' Stands for More Than Pediatric Orthotic and Prosthetic Services
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/10/POPS-stands-for-more-than-Pediatric-Orthotic-and-Prosthetic-ServicesPediatric Orthotic and Prosthetic Services (POPS) – Southeast, LLC, at Shriners Hospitals for Children — Greenville is an in-house resource, providing care for our patients who have limb deficiencies or bracing needs from infancy to 18 years of age.
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Patient Story
What Will the X-ray Say?
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/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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News
Meet Our Care Managers!
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/10/Meet-our-care-managersNational Case Management Week 2020 is October 11 – 17 and we are celebrating our dedicated and compassionate care managers.
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Podcast
Normal Variations in the Legs of Growing Children
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/Podcasts/2020/10/Normal-Variations-in-the-Legs-of-Growing-ChildrenParents may wonder if a child’s leg or foot is “normal." Dr. Terri Cappello offers answers in a podcast.
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Shriners Children's Twin Cities Joins with Blank Children's Hospital to Provide Specialty Orthopaedic Care
https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/10/Shriners-Childrens-Twin-Cities-joins-with-Blank-Childrens-Hospital-to-provide-specialty-orthopaedicShriners Children’s Twin Cities joins with Blank Children’s Hospital to provide specialty orthopaedic care to children in Central Iowa