HIP

Keeping Up with the Count: Hip Health in Dancers

Keeping Up with the Count: Hip Health in Dancers

Dancers and other performing artists place demands on their hips that are unlike those of other athletes. Movements push the range of motion of their hips to extreme ends from an early age. They must have the flexibility for turnouts, leaps, or grand battements, and...

Recognizing Adolescent Hip Conditions

Recognizing Adolescent Hip Conditions

Key messages from a presentation by staff orthopedist, David A. Podeszwa, M.D., at Coffee, Kids and Sports Medicine. Article originally published in first quarter, 2018 issue of Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas newsletter.  Watch the lecturePrint the PDF...

Get to Know our SRH Staff: Molly McGuire, Research

Get to Know our SRH Staff: Molly McGuire, Research

What is your role at the hospital? What do you do on a daily basis?  My job involves working with teams of surgeon-researchers and coordinators all over the world to collect data about patients they treat for Perthes disease, a rare disease that impacts formation of...

Speak Now for Kids: Physical Therapy Month with Emmitt

Speak Now for Kids: Physical Therapy Month with Emmitt

View the original story on the Speak Now for Kids website here. October is National Physical Therapy Month, and we invite you to read about our amazing little patients who have benefited from physical therapy services at our children’s hospitals. Today’s blog is about...

Hip Dysplasia in Some Linked to Poor Swaddling

Hip Dysplasia in Some Linked to Poor Swaddling

Development dysplasia of the hip, also known as DDH, occurs in one in 1,000 births, and doctors at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children warn how improper swaddling can lead to the condition. DDH is a relationship between the ball and the socket of the hip joint,...