Our Specialty Centers

The Wallace B. Lehman, M.D. Center for Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

The Wallace B. Lehman, M.D. Center for Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery is a state-of-the-art facility which treats children with ailments such as clubfoot, bone and soft tissue tumors, congenital dislocation of the hip, sports injuries, Blount’s Disease and pediatric fractures. It is comprised of the following sub-centers and areas of expertise:

• Childhood Fractures
• The Ebers Center for Foot Deformity -The Clubfoot Center
• Treatment of Spinal Deformity and Scoliosis
• Treatment of Infantile and Childhood Deformity
• Treatment of Adolescent and Adult Hip Dysplasia
• Treatment of Limb Deformity
• Legg-Calves-Perthes Disease and Avascular Necrosis
• Center for Sports Medicine in Children and Adolescents
  

The Center offers the following treatments for the various orthopaedic conditions:

• Pavlik harness
• Open reduction of Hip
• Salter osteotomy
• Tonnis osteotomy
• Taylor Spatial Frame
• Distraction arthroplasty
• Ilizarov
• Ponseti technique for clubfoot
• Foot Osteotomy
• Hip/Thigh Osteotomy
• Tibial Osteotomy
• State-of-the-art fracture management
• Waterproof casting
• Periacetabular Osteotomy (Ganz)
• Hemicallotosis
• Arthroscopic surgery of the knees, hip, ankle and elbow
• Minimally invasive scoliosis surgery

 

To make an appointment at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases Center for Children, please call 212-598-6205