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Paediatric Orthopaedic Outpatient Clinic

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Opening hours and contact information

Visiting address

Tyks Lighthouse Hospital
Savitehtaankatu 5
Turku
2nd floor, section M, B-lifts

Postal address

PO Box 52
20521 Turku
Mo 8:15–9:00
We–Fr 8:15–9:00

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.

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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 the Tyks Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

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