Treatment of leg length inequality involves many different approaches, such as orthotics, epiphysiodesis, shortening, and lengthening, which can be used alone or combined in an effort to achieve ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At the time of presentation, the patient was a 17-year-old male referred for evaluation of chronic right hip ...

A limb length discrepancy is, quite simply, a difference in size between the length of an individual's arms or legs, and can occur in the upper and lower portions of each. The difference in length can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The modified Fels knee skeletal maturity system accurately estimates ultimate limb length discrepancy and ...

Scientists at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio and the Van Andel Research Institute in Michigan have demonstrated the first successful correction of limb length in a mouse model of ...

Have you ever been to a doctor or chiropractor and been somewhat startled when the doc delivered this news? “You have one leg that is an inch shorter than the other.” Believe it or not, it’s not that ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I had polio when I was 11 years old, many years ago, and miraculously, recovered enough to live a normal life. When I was in my 40s, I developed constant back pain and visited a ...

The numerous causes of limb length inequality can generally be divided into two broad categories: congenital and acquired. Congenital limb length inequality is due to limb hypoplasia syndromes, the ...