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A Day in the Life: Shriners Children's Child Life Specialists

Mar 19, 2024 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2024/03/Child-Life-Specialists

Child life specialists teach distraction and coping techniques, but, perhaps more importantly, they are certified and trained to evaluate a patient's developmental and psychosocial needs.

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Imperial Session Tours 2024 Recap

Aug 21, 2024 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2024/08/Imperial-Session-Tours-2024-Recap

During the 2024 Imperial Session, over 800 Shriners, Ladies and their families from 10 countries and over 80 temples had the opportunity to experience a behind-the-scenes, hands-on look at what the Northern California hospital does.

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NASCAR drivers Ragan, Little Team with Shriners Hospitals for Children

Aug 28, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/08/NASCAR-drivers-Ragan-Little-team-with-Shriners-Hospitals-for-Children

NASCAR drivers David Ragan and Jesse Little will be racing for a cause during the 2020 Shriners Hospitals for Children Race Weekend presented by Homer’s Foundation.

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Sharing Our Research in Human Movement

Jul 13, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/07/Sharing-our-research-in-human-movement

A biomedical engineer from our motion analysis center and two graduate students presented to the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS). The researchers from the Chicago Shriners Hospital presented projects conducted in our hospital gait lab involving foot and ankle biomechanics for pat...

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Child Life Services at Shriners Childrens Boston

Oct 11, 2021 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2021/10/Child-Life-Services-at-Shriners-Childrens-Boston

Pet therapy and music therapy are just two ways our child life specialists connect with our patients.

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Do you know what pollicization is?

Nov 18, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/11/Sabes-qu-es-la-pulgarizacin

Pollicization is currently one of the procedures performed quite frequently at Shriners Hospital. This procedure consists in converting one of the fingers of the hand into a thumb for patients who are unfortunately born without this finger, or that have lost their thumb due to some type of trauma. T...

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EuroSunday's Rally4Kids Helps Make Christmas a Reality for Hospitalized Children

Dec 08, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/12/EuroSundays-Rally4Kids-helps-make-Christmas-a-reality-for-hospitalized-children

EuroSunday held their 14th annual Rally4Kids event Sunday, Dec. 6 outside Shriners Hospital for Children — Northern California. Car clubs from communities around the greater Sacramento region were represented by hundreds of vintage, exotic and rare cars whose owners donated roughly 4,500 toys to pat...

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Hip dysplasia in children

Sep 28, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/09/Displasia-de-cadera-en-nios

Shriners Hospital is a pioneer in Latin America and has a hip clinic aimed at patients 3 months of age and older with this pathology, and offers treatment follow-up. Regarding the subject, we interviewed Dr. Roberto Galvan, who is the Chief of the teaching department of the hip pathology clinic, so ...

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Planning a Visit to the Spokane Shriners Hospital?

Sep 24, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/09/Planning-a-visit-to-the-Spokane-Shriners-Hospital

Are you coming to the Spokane Shriners Hospital soon? You will want to watch this brief video first, which demonstrates the updated safety measures in place to keep patients, families and staff safe.

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COVID-19 Update

Mar 18, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2020/03/COVID-19-update

Shriners Hospitals for Children is responding to this unprecedented situation related to COVID-19. It is important we keep the safety of our patients and our caregivers paramount in our decision-making.