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Practice of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Pediatric orthopedics is a subspecialty of medicine that deals with the prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders in children. In 1741, Nicholas Andry, professor of medicine at the University of Paris, published his treatise describing different methods of preventing and correcting deformities in children. He combined two Greek words, orthos, or straight, and paidios, child, into one word, “orthopedics,”
which became the name of the speciality concerned with the preservation and restoration of the musculoskeletal
system. Pediatric orthopedics is central to this specialty because of Andry’s original focus on childhood
problems, because of the large proportion of orthopedic problems that originate during the early period of growth, and finally, because pediatric orthopedics offers a dynamic and inherently interesting subspecialty.
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