Pediatric Orthopedics

Stony Brook Orthopaedic Associates' Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics at Stony Brook Children’s is the premier resource for children in Suffolk County with orthopaedic (bone) issues. The division combines clinical excellence, 24/7 access to pediatric orthopaedic surgeons and leading-edge research.

It is often the first—and only—stop for parents who trust Stony Brook’s capabilities. Other area hospitals also rely on Stony Brook for their most complex and challenging cases.

Our fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeons provide coordinated and comprehensive medical and surgical pediatric orthopaedic services. They are also at the forefront of innovation, performing the world’s first internal skeletal kinetic distractor (ISKD) procedure on the humerus. The results of this groundbreaking limb-lengthening procedure were recently presented at a national meeting of orthopaedic physicians.

This pioneering work, like so much of the care at Stony Brook Children’s, has the potential to advance pediatric medicine—and offers children on Long Island round-the-clock access to world-class care.

Services

Pediatric orthopaedic services are available on an inpatient and outpatient basis. The physicians see patients in clinics at St. Charles Hospital and Nassau University Medical Center, as well as at the Pediatric Emergency Department at Stony Brook Children's. Surgery is performed at Stony Brook Children's.

The department's capabilities include state-of-the-art diagnostics and surgery and run the full gamut from treating simple fractures to delicate spinal surgery. Some of the conditions treated include spinal deformity, joint reconstruction, trauma, club foot, developmental deformity, degenerated and herniated discs, sports injuries, limb lengthening, scoliosis and many others.

State-of-the-Art Diagnostics

Our department has access to the latest diagnostic techniques, which help deliver safer, faster and more accurate imaging — with special attention on using the lowest doses of radiation possible.

Techniques available include:

• Minimally invasive CT-guided biopsy
• X-ray
• CT scan
• MRI
• Nuclear medicine
• Surgery
• EOS low dose radiation imaging

Whenever possible, we use the most minimally invasive techniques possible, employing video-assisted surgical technology.

Some of the procedures we specialize in include:

• Video-assisted hip reconstruction
• Thoracopy
• Multiple trauma surgery
• Repair of developmental deformities
• Scoliosis surgery
• Limb lengthening/Ilizarov surgery
• Excision of tumors

In the case of scoliosis surgery, we have helped pioneer a unique anesthesia protocol for pain control that gets the patient out of the hospital, on average, two days earlier.