The Department of Orthopedics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital provides diagnosis, evaluation and treatment for all orthopedic conditions and disorders in infants, children and adolescents. Inpatient, outpatient and emergency services are provided to patients with a wide range of developmental, congenital, neuromuscular and posttraumatic problems of the musculoskeletal system, trauma and fractures, scoliosis, and other spinal abnormalities. Faculty members participate in the education of health care professionals at several levels. Residents, medical students and nurses from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, OhioHealth and Mount Carmel Health System receive all their pediatric orthopedic experience at Nationwide Children’s. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited fellowship program rounds out the extensive educational program.
Targeted Muscle Reinnervation for Limb Amputation to Avoid Neuroma and Phantom Limb Pain in Patients Treated at a Pediatric Hospital
In an article recently published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open, Thomas Scharschmidt, MD, director of the Pediatric Orthopedic Oncology Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and colleagues at have demonstrated decreased phantom limb and residual limb pain, as well as early prosthetic adoption, in pediatric patients following limb amputation with targeted muscle reinnervation.
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The Department of Orthopedics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital provides diagnosis, evaluation and treatment for all orthopedic conditions and disorders in infants, children and adolescents. Inpatient, outpatient and emergency services are provided to patients with a wide range of developmental, congenital, neuromuscular and posttraumatic problems of the musculoskeletal system, trauma and fractures, scoliosis, and other spinal abnormalities. Faculty members participate in the education of health care professionals at several levels. Residents, medical students and nurses from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, OhioHealth and Mount Carmel Health System receive all their pediatric orthopedic experience at Nationwide Children’s. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited fellowship program rounds out the extensive educational program.
