Pediatric Orthopaedics

Embryology and development of the neuromuscular apparatus; growth; imaging techniques and their applications; the orthopaedic examination; normal gait and assessment of gait disorders; genetics of orthopaedic conditions; metabolic and endocrine abnormalities; skeletal dysplasias; other syndromes of orthopaedic importance; localized disorders of bone and soft tissue; diseases of the haematopoietic system; juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and other childhood arthritides; bone and joint sepsis; bone and soft tissue tumors; cerebral palsy; myelomeningocele; other neuromuscular disorders; idiopathic and congenital scoliosis; kyphosis; spondylolisthesis; the cervical spine; the upper limb; developmental hip dysplasia and dislocation; Legg-Calve-Perthes disease; slipped capital femoral epiphysis; developmental coxa vara, transient synovitis and idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip; the lower extremity; leg length discrepancy; the foot; the limb deficient child; sports medicine in the growing child; management of fractures and their complications; the role of the orthopaedic surgeon in child abuse; the upper extremity; the spine; the pelvis and hip; the femur; the knee; the tibia; the foot.