Background: Many people have leg-length discrepancies of greater or lesser severity. No evidence-based studies on the need for treatment are currently available. Methods: This review is based on ...

When balancing treatment options for a child with a significant difference in leg length, doctors typically advise families about the risks and benefits of surgeries to either shorten or elongate one ...

Can you determine from these radiographs what type of treatment this10-year-old is undergoing, and how long he will need to be treated to correct his 5cm leg length discrepancy? An Ilizarov frame was ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I had polio when I was 11 years old, many years ago, and miraculously, recovered enough to live a normal life. When I was in my 40s, I developed constant back pain and visited a ...

Many people will have one leg longer than the other, and often this is why we have one foot larger than the other. Usually the larger foot corresponds to the longer leg, as it has to push down more on ...

We remember as children hearing from our mothers and grandmothers to “sit up straight” and “don’t slouch.” Little did they know that we physically could not do what they wanted us to do. For whatever ...

no longer has problems taking his dog for walks in his League City neighborhood. Bowen, 22, grew up with Olliers disease, which caused a significant discrepancy in the lengths of his legs and didn't ...

There are four phases to treatment. Distraction is first and usually begins 5 to 7 days postoperatively. The optimum distraction is 1mm/day divided into four increments, or 0.25mm every 6 hours. In ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I had polio when I was 11 years old, many years ago, and miraculously, recovered enough to live a normal life. When I was in my 40s, I developed constant back pain and visited a ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I had polio when I was 11 years old, many years ago, and miraculously, recovered enough to live a normal life. When I was in my 40s, I developed constant back pain and visited a ...