When balancing treatment options for a child with a significant difference in leg length, doctors typically advise families about the risks and benefits of surgeries to either shorten or elongate one ...

Can you determine from these radiographs what type of treatment this10-year-old is undergoing, and how long he will need to be treated to correct his 5cm leg length discrepancy? An Ilizarov frame was ...

Thanks for writing, Bruce. You are right that leg length discrepancy is the most common cause of back pain in runners and all active individuals. Unfortunately, you have gone about this all wrong and ...

This week we are going to discuss a condition of the lower limbs which affects the spine, pelvis, hips, knees, ankles and feet. That condition? Leg length discrepancy or LLD. A leg length discrepancy ...

Have you ever been to a doctor or chiropractor and been somewhat startled when the doc delivered this news? “You have one leg that is an inch shorter than the other.” Believe it or not, it’s not that ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I had polio when I was 11 years old, many years ago, and miraculously, recovered enough to live a normal life. When I was in my 40s, I developed constant back pain and visited a ...

Many people will have one leg longer than the other, and often this is why we have one foot larger than the other. Usually the larger foot corresponds to the longer leg, as it has to push down more on ...

When balancing treatment options for a child with a significant difference in leg length, doctors typically advise families about the risks and benefits of surgeries to either shorten or elongate one ...

There are four phases to treatment. Distraction is first and usually begins 5 to 7 days postoperatively. The optimum distraction is 1mm/day divided into four increments, or 0.25mm every 6 hours. In ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I had polio when I was 11 years old, many years ago, and miraculously, recovered enough to live a normal life. When I was in my 40s, I developed constant back pain and visited a ...