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Sports specialization has become increasingly common amongst young athletes, as have the rates of both orthopedic injuries and major injuries such as ACL tears. These concerning trends are not coincidental, reports Mininder Kocher, MD, M.P.H, an orthopedic surgeon and the associate director of Boston Children’s Sports Medicine Division, in a recent presentation to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS).
I have worked at Boston Children’s Hospital for the last 10 years, the first two as a co-op and the last eight as a staff nurse — all on 6W. I just love this floor. We’re a small, 14-bed unit that provides longer-term care for children undergoing bone marrow transplants. We see different types of leukemia and other cancer and blood disorders such as neuroblastoma, aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. We also see other genetic, metabolic and hematologic diagnoses like CVID, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, SCID, adrenoleukodystrophy and sickle cell disease, some of which we treat with gene therapy. …Read More
For many patients with idiopathic scoliosis, wearing a brace can be a stressful and challenging endeavor. Throughout this process, supporting and encouraging your patient can be just as crucial to their treatment’s success as monitoring the brace-wearing regimen.
Michael Glotzbecker, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in the Spinal Program at Boston Children’s Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Center, and Deborah Cranford, RN, a nurse at Boston Children’s who works closely with scoliosis patients, provide insights and tips on how clinicians can help patients better manage their scoliosis treatment.
Short bowel syndrome is commonplace to Danielle Stamm, RN, FNP-BCR. As one of the dedicated nurse practitioners in the Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation (CAIR) at Boston Children’s Hospital, she sees children with this rare but serious condition on a daily basis. But what’s familiar to Stamm and her colleagues is unusual to many other clinicians. …Read More