The orthopaedic specialists at Shriners Hospitals for Children — Portland provide a comprehensive approach to meeting each child’s individual needs through specialized evaluation and treatment. As a team working with parents or guardians, our goal is to restore each child physically, emotionally and socially. A team of professionals evaluate each child to determine and coordinate the best care possible. All care and services are provided regardless of the families’ ability to pay.
Orthopaedic conditions treated
Below is a list of the common conditions treated at Shriners Hospitals for Children — Portland. Conditions not listed will be considered on an individual case-by-case basis, considering the specialized care provided by the Portland Shriners Hospital. Common orthopaedic conditions treated, include:
Amputation
- Absence of a bone or part of a limb, congenital or acquired
Bone defects/disease
- Congenital pseudoarthrosis
- Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD lesions)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
Bowed legs
- Blount’s disease
- Physiologic
- Rickets
Dwarfism
Fingers
- Absent digits
- Extra digits
- Macrodactyly
- Syndactyly
- Webbed fingers
Foot problems
- Bunions
- Cavus/cavovarus
- Clubfoot
- Foot pain
- Metatarsus adductus
- Pes planus (flat feet)
- Tarsal coalition
- Toe walking
Fractures
- Complications after fractures
- Non-emergent follow-up
Hand problems
- Congenital abnormalities
- Radial anomalies (club hand, hypoplasia)
- TAR syndrome (thrombocytopenia absent radius)
Hip deformities
- Congenital hip dislocation
- DDH (developmental dysplasia of the hip)
- Femoral acetabular impingement (FAI)
- Legg-Calve Perthes disease
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Knee
- Anterior cruciate ligament injury (ACL)
- Knock knees
- Meniscus injury
- Osgood-Schlatter’s disease
Leg-length discrepancies
Neck
- Klippel – Feil syndrome
- Torticollis
Shoulder
- Erb’s palsy
- Sprengel’s deformity
Miscellaneous orthopaedic conditions
- Abnormal gait (walk)
- Amniotic band syndrome
- Arthrogryposis
- Benign tumors of the bone
- Bone cysts
- Dwarfism
- Enchondroma
- Solitary and multiple hereditary exostosis (osteochondromatosis)
Spine
- Kyphosis
- Lordosis
- Scoliosis
- Spondylolisis
- Spondylolisthesis
Toes
- Extra toes
- Macrodactyly
- Syndactyly
- Webbed toes
Collaborative approach to care
The hospital’s approach to working with families includes the ability to find more than just doctors under our roof. Patients who need evaluations and appointments with services such as rehabilitation, orthotics and prosthetics, radiology, child life, social work, nutrition and more, can find these services readily available at the Portland Shriners Hospital.
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Specialty clinics
The Portland Shriners Hospital operates specialty clinics in the following areas: