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Shriners Hospitals for Children Feels Like Home to Michael

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Eight-year-old Michael has been a patient at the medical center since he was a baby, and has had nearly a dozen surgeries to treat his scoliosis and a congenital condition called arthrogryposis, which involves stiffness of the joints that limits the range of motion.

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Pediatric Specialty Care in Erie

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Pediatric specialty care for children throughout Pennsylvania and beyond

News

Stepping Towards Solutions: A Toe-walking Study at Shriners Children's

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Join us in a journey towards better mobility for children everywhere.

female patient during motion analysis center assessment

Specialty

Wound Care and Skin Disorders

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Shriners Children's provides specialized wound care with a team of specialists, and treatment including plastic surgery, cosmetic makeup and lasers for skin disorders.

Child with arm wound laying in parents arms

Podcast

Limb Length Discrepancies

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Dr. Jeffrey Ackman explains treatment for limb length discrepancies at Shriners Children's.

Doctor Ackman with limb discrepancy patient

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-Children

Parents may wonder if a child’s leg or foot is “normal." Dr. Terri Cappello offers answers in a podcast.

Specialty

Burn Care

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Shriners Children’s treats all levels and types of burns, including chemical burns, electrical burns and flame burns. Our pediatric burn care treatment plans are personalized and can include wound care, scar management and reconstruction.

female burn patient in magician's hat and cape holding a wand

News

Shriners Children’s Lexington Adds Pet Therapy

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Shriners Children's Lexington's new therapy dog, Chance, relates to patients he visits in the prosthetics clinic because he also has a limb difference.

News

Shriners Children's Medical Leaders Educate and Learn at Prestigious National Cerebral Palsy Conference

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Shriners Children’s physicians, advanced practice providers, therapists, social workers, engineers and scientists contributed their expertise and knowledge at the 78th American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) Annual Meeting.

Attendees of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine annual meeting.

News

Sharing Our Research in Human Movement

https://shriners-production-cd.azurewebsites.net/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/07/Sharing-our-research-in-human-movement

A biomedical engineer from our motion analysis center and two graduate students presented to the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS). The researchers from the Chicago Shriners Hospital presented projects conducted in our hospital gait lab involving foot and ankle biomechanics for pat...

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