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>> KIRSTEN HAD DEVELOPED A SEVERE CURVE IN HER BACK.
SHE WAS ONLY A YEAR OLD SO DR. DORMANS DECIDED TO PUT HER
IN A BENDING BRACE.
SHE WAS IN IT FOR APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS, TWO AND A HALF YEARS,
AND IT JUST DIDN'T WORK.
AT THAT POINT THERE WAS NO OTHER OPTION BUT TO DO THE GROWING RODS.
>> TABITHA, SHE WAS BORN WITH THE TYPE OF KYPHOSCOLIOSIS WHERE
HER SPINE IS JUST VERY SHARP CURVE.
IF SHE WAS BORN 10 YEARS PRIOR, SHE PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE HERE NOW.
BECAUSE THAT SEVERE SCOLIOSIS, THAT COMPRESSION WITH HER LUNGS,
THEY JUST WITHER AWAY.
SHE NOW HAS A VEPTR SYSTEM THAT SHE HAD PUT IN WHEN SHE
WAS FOUR YEARS OLD.
IF SHE NEVER HAD THIS IMPLANT DONE SHE WOULDN'T BE ABLE
TO FUNCTION AS WELL AS SHE DOES NOW.
>> CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA WAS THE FIRST
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN THE UNITED STATES, FOUNDED IN 1855.
SO THE HOSPITAL'S BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME AND THERE HAVE BEEN
ORTHOPEDIC DISORDERS AS PART OF THE HOSPITAL'S WORK DATING ALL
THE WAY BACK TO THAT TIME.
>> THE ORTHOPEDIC DIVISION AT CHOP IS SIMPLY AMAZING.
THERE'S MULTIPLE EXPERTS IN MANY IN AREAS.
>> WE TREAT CHILDREN WITH THE MYRIAD OF DIFFERENT CONDITIONS
AND DISORDERS.
>> IN PARTICULAR, THOUGH, CHOP HAS DISTINGUISHED ITSELF
WORLDWIDE FOR ITS TREATMENT OF SPINE DEFORMITY.
>> AND ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE HAVE A PARTICULAR EXPERTISE AND INTEREST IN
IS THORACIC INSUFFICIENCY AND EARLY ONSET SCOLIOSIS.