Pediatric Orthopedics

The Department of Pediatric Orthopedics of Tianjin Hospital consists of two departments: Pediatric Orthopedics Ward 1 and Pediatric Orthopedics Ward 2: 1. Pediatric Orthopedics Ward 1 The Pediatric Orthopedics Department of Tianjin Hospital was founded in 1954 by Professor Fang Xianzhi, one of the founders of modern orthopedics in China. It is the first clinical department in the country that specializes in diagnosing and treating various bone, joint and spinal diseases in children under 14 years old. With more than sixty years of development and generations of inheritance, pediatric orthopedics has accumulated a profound foundation not only in the diagnosis and treatment of common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases, but also in the correction of difficult, complex trauma and deformities. It has established a standardized and systematic system for diagnosis and evaluation, conservative and surgical treatment, and postoperative rehabilitation. It has a professional team full of love, comprehensive technology, and rich clinical experience, forming a disciplinary system that integrates medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, and rehabilitation. In 2010, the Department of Orthopedics of Tianjin Hospital (pediatric orthopedics is one of the eight subspecialties) was selected by the Ministry of Health as one of the first batch of national key clinical orthopedics specialties; in 2010, it became the Chinese Pediatric Orthopedics Clinical Training Center of the International Association of Internal Fixation (AO); in 2015, it was identified as a training base for pediatric orthopedics specialists by the Competence and Continuing Education Center of the National Health and Family Planning Commission. The Department of Pediatric Orthopedics currently has two wards with 72 open beds.Among the 17 doctors in the general practice, 9 have senior professional and technical titles, and many of them have experience in further studies abroad. The average number of outpatient visits per year is more than 67,000, and the number of surgeries per year is 3,500; 45% of the hospitalized children are patients with complex, difficult, and rare diseases who come from other places for medical treatment. After years of development, pediatric orthopedics has formed distinctive technical characteristics and disciplinary advantages: serial treatment of developmental hip dislocation/acetabular dysplasia at different ages; avascular necrosis of the femoral head in children (Legg–Calvé–Perthes) Conservative and surgical treatment of diseases); surgical correction of complex hip deformities; correction and reconstruction of upper limb deformities, uneven lower limb lengths, genu varum, and genu valgus caused by different causes; surgical correction of congenital hand, foot and ankle deformities; correction of congenital/developmental scoliosis; Individualized treatment of benign and malignant bone tumors and tumor-like lesions; various types of acute and chronic bone and joint infections; minimally invasive treatment of various children's fractures and dislocations, and correction of post-traumatic deformities are among the best in the country and the world's advanced level. It is a representative of the first-class level of pediatric orthopedics in the country today. Today's development of pediatric orthopedics is due to the support and guarantee of Tianjin Hospital's large scale and domestic first-class orthopedics development platform;It comes from the solid foundation laid by the seniors for the development of the discipline; it comes from the united, collaborative and enterprising talent team in the department. In the future, the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics will combine the mid- and long-term development plans of the Department of Orthopedics of Tianjin Hospital, gather multi-disciplinary interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collaborative mechanisms, implement innovation-driven strategies, and strive to form a "four-in-one" discipline development goal of clinical diagnosis and treatment, scientific research, education and training, and talent cultivation. 2. Pediatric Orthopedics Ward 2 The Pediatric Orthopedics Department was founded in 1954. For more than 50 years, the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics has always adhered to the purpose and mission of "treating children as one's own family, caring for them carefully, and emphasizing both ethics and skills". It has formed a systematic and standardized system for the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of children's bone and joint diseases. It has an excellent professional team with rich clinical experience. There are 24 medical staff in the department, 7 of whom have senior professional and technical titles. Department Director Yang Jianping is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Society of Pediatric Surgery and leader of the Pediatric Orthopedics Group. He is an academic leader in the national pediatric orthopedics profession. Discipline features of pediatric orthopedics: ⑴ Serialized and personalized treatment of developmental hip dislocation and hip dysplasia of all ages and types;⑵ Conservative and surgical treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head (Legg-Calve-Perthes disease) in children of different ages; ⑶ Surgical treatment of femoral epiphyseal slippage; ⑷ Plaster orthopedics and surgical correction of congenital clubfoot and other foot deformities of different ages; ⑸ Comprehensive treatment of severe trauma and multiple fractures, minimally invasive treatment of different types of fractures and dislocations in various parts, treatment of subsequent growth deformities and non-union of fractures; ⑹Conservative and surgical treatment of congenital and idiopathic scoliosis; ⑺Correction of various types of lower limb angular deformity (O-leg and