Orthopaedics
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Buckle Injuries: Management and Care After Discharge
Information about managing buckle injuries.
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Care of your child in a broomstick cast
This leaflet aims to give you some information on the care of your child during their hospital stay and tips on how to manage your child at home.
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Caring for a hip spica cast A parent’s view
Information for parents by parents about caring for a child in a hip spica cast
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Circular Frame Treatment and Care for Children and Young People
This leaflet aims to help you and your family understand more about your treatment with a circular frame, and to provide you with information about coping with your frame from day-to-day.
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Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
Information on what is DDH and how to diagnose and treat this condition.
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EDF (Elongation / Derotation / Flexion) casts
EDF (Elongation / Derotation / Flexion) casting is used in infantile scoliosis. Casting is used to enable the spine to be guided into its normal position as the spine grows. The aim is to straighten the spine or prevent deterioration of scoliosis, while the lungs are still developing.
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Outpatient K wire removal
Your child has had a broken bone which had to be realigned to a good position and be fixed with wires to maintain the position.
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Removal of a Plaster of Paris (POP) cast
Information for parents and carers if their child has a broken bone and requires to be in a 'Plaster of Paris' (POP) cast.
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Removal of a soft cast
Information for parents and carers if their child has a broken bone and requires to be in a 'Soft Cast'.
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Shoulder dislocation
Information for parents and carers if their child has sustained a shoulder dislocation.
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Simple (undisplaced) Metatarsal fractures
Information for parents if their child has a sustained a break (fracture) in one of the five long bones of their toe, which form the middle part of their foot and the Doctor has confirmed this.
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Simple (undisplayed) scaphoid fractures
Information for parents and carers if their child has sustained a simple (undisplaced) break or “hair-line fracture” to the scaphoid, the bone between the wrist and the thumb.
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Toe fractures
Information for parents if their child has a sustained a break (fracture) in one of the small bones of their toe and the Doctor has confirmed this.
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Your Child's Plaster Cast, What you need to know
Information about the care of your child when they have a plaster cast
