THE IMPORTANCE OF PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDICS (Pediatric Orthopedist)

Hello, I am Docent Dr. Ali Fırat Karadar.

I am a faculty member at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at Yıldırım Beyaz University.

After completing my residency at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, I went to the United States to pursue a subspecialty in pediatric orthopedics and received two years of training in pediatric orthopedics at Alfred Dupont Children's Hospital.

In the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, specialization is now becoming widespread worldwide.

Pediatric orthopedics is one of the most important subspecialties within this field.

Pediatric orthopedics is a subspecialty that can diagnose and treat developmental issues, motor development, and motor disorders in children up to the age of 18 at an early stage.

Pediatric orthopedics is a broad field that includes developmental hip dysplasia, congenital clubfoot, cerebral palsy, spinal deformities, and deformities resulting from trauma.

Many children visit our clinic for problems related to gait disorders, foot disorders, and spinal disorders.

Our clinic provides follow-up and treatment for these conditions, and we have achieved excellent results.

However, it is important that treatment and follow-up are carried out by a team that is specialized and professional in this field.

In the child's environment, the most important factor in managing the child and their treatment is the family.

The cooperation of the family, the comfort of the family, the presentation of the patient, the thorough explanation of the patient's condition to the family, and the explanation that the follow-up and treatment program may require years of follow-up and treatment are very important.

A specific program should be provided to the family.

A program for follow-up and treatment related to the disease should be created.

This should be communicated to the family.

The family should be well informed about the success rate of this treatment and the complication rate at the end of this treatment.

The better informed families are about the condition and the process, the more comfortable they will be and the more likely they will comply with the treatment.

If another doctor has referred the family, for example, saying that there is a program related to the hip, families often panic and become deeply distressed, fearing that their child may be disabled or may not recover.

However, first of all, a professional diagnostic method should be used, such as autosomes for a baby or X-rays for an older child, to determine whether there is a pathology, and the family should be informed whether there is a pathology or not. Fortunately, as is the case worldwide, it has been shown that treatment is successful in a large percentage of cases at our clinic, and the family should be informed of this.

The more you reassure the family, the better the treatment compliance will be.

And what is important here is to first determine whether there is a pathology in the baby who comes to you.

If there is a problem in the foot, hip, or knee, it is important to explain the treatment to the family, and with proper and correct treatment, very good results can be achieved in our clinic, as is the case worldwide.

First of all, the younger the babies are when they come to us, the more successful the treatment and the higher the success rate.

Early diagnosis and treatment are particularly important in cases of congenital clubfoot, hip problems, knee problems, all congenital problems, and spinal problems.

With the right diagnostic method and the right treatment, most conditions can be treated with nearly 100% success in the first year of life.

There is also a group of patients who come to our clinic in their early teens, around 10-11-12 years old, with spinal issues.

In particular, in girls, unexplained humoral abnormalities are monitored with X-rays, efforts are made to keep them below the surgical threshold, and corset treatments are applied.

So, if an incorrect treatment is applied in an unconscious manner in the diseases we are discussing, should we be cautious about this?

And if such a situation occurs, what kind of problems might it lead to in the future, and how feasible is it to correct them?

What is important here is the age at which the baby is brought in and that the treatment plan is carried out by a professional team.

We do not encounter major problems in treatments carried out by truly experienced physicians who have dedicated themselves to pediatric orthopedics. However, in cases where doctors are not specialized in this field, do not encounter these patients frequently, and do not focus solely on this work, various pathologies and complications unfortunately arise, and these are then treated at our clinic. We never leave our children untreated due to mistakes made by other doctors.