The Spine Center
The Spine Center in the Children’s Orthopaedic Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is a world-renowned comprehensive pediatric spine center, treating young patients with spine problems and deformities. With outstanding leadership, the Spine Center performs approximately 250 spine surgeries per year and follows over 1,000 children and adolescents with spine problems annually. Our goal is to return children and young adults back to normal lives, sports, and activities as soon as possible. We view surgery as the last resort and try to first find non-surgical solutions when possible via a multi-disciplinary approach including physical therapy, core strengthening and orthotics to name a few. All surgeons are well-respected members of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) and the internationally-revered Scoliosis Research Society (SRS). The Spine Center has been pivotal in the innovation of surgical techniques in young children with early-onset scoliosis, infantile scoliosis, and other deformities in the growing spine. The Spine Center is also an all-inclusive facility that works with expert orthotists in improving braces and halos for the neck and back. In concert with our orthotics division, our physician-researchers has developed the pinless halo for several neck conditions in children, such as torticollis and rotatory subluxation. The center also works very closely with the outstanding neurosurgeons at Children's Hospital Los Angeles to address the following conditions:
Our orthopaedic physicians are international experts in treating all spine problems in children, including:
Our orthopaedic surgeons are highly skilled in complex surgerical procedures, including:
Our TeamOur multidisciplinary team includes:
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