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 on…