Paediatric orthopaedics

Paediatric orthopaedics identifies, diagnoses and treats deformities, growth disturbances, diseases and injuries to the skeletal locomotor organs. The paediatric orthopaedist decides when and where preventive measures are necessary, when an operation may be required and which of the abnormalities will probably correct themselves during the course of development. Treatment of bones that are still growing has be extremely carefully evaluated and observed over a long period.