Paediatric Orthopaedic Outpatient Clinic
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We treat different musculoskeletal diseases of children and adolescents. An interprofessional care team provides treatment at our clinic, including a paediatric orthopaedist, nurse, physiotherapist, occupational therapist and a medical orderly.
The national centre of competence for paediatric orthopaedics and traumatology is located in Tyks, so we receive lots of patients from outside Southwest Finland.
We admit patients by a doctor's referral.
Our treatment include
- Orthopaedic problems of neonates
- repeated plaster casting of club foot (Ponseti method)
- treatment of congenital hip dislocation
- Children's back problems
- brace treatment for scoliosis and back stress fractures
- assessment of the need for operation of children with back problems requiring surgical treatment
- Neuro-orthopaedics
- assessment of the need for operation of children requiring multilevel surgery
- Upper limb disorders of children
- the assessment of the need for conservative, prosthetic and operative treatment of congenital brachial plexus injury and children's hand anomalies multiprofessional assessment (paediatric orthopaedist, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, medical aid technician)
- Lower limb disorders of children
- the assessment of the need for treatment of unequal leg length, malpositions and congenital deformities.
We are a part of result group for gynaecology and paediatrics.
Hospitals
Tyks Lighthouse hospital
In the Lighthouse hospital we have paediatric and adolescent medicine, gynaecology and obstetrics, ear, nose and throat diseases and oral and maxillofacial diseases. You can also find some of the medical imaging functions in the Lighthouse hospital.
