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Nutrition Advice for Healing and Health

https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Podcasts/2022/01/Nutrition-Advice-for-Healing-and-Health

Clinical dietitian on proper nutrition to help children prepare for surgery, heal and be healthy.

Patient Story

Going the Distance

https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/10/Going-the-distance

Narshare and her son Kareem are a long way from home. The two are adapting to life in the United States while Kareem undergoes treatment for Blount’s disease, a problem with the growth plates around the knees that causes severe bowing of the lower legs.

Patient Story

Finding the Beautiful Swan Within

https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/10/Finding-the-beautiful-swan-within

The year was 1979, and Shari was a shattered 11-year-old girl. With a spine curved so severely by scoliosis that she struggled to lift her head to look forward, she was the target of her classmates’ abuse. But then Shriners Hospital for Children — St. Louis entered her life via a scoliosis screening...

Patient Story

The Tools of the Trade

https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/09/The-tools-of-the-trade

A tear slid down Ashleigh Bentz’s cheek as she opened the toolbox. A shoe horn. A pipe cutter. Clamps. The tools that helped make Marvin Hohbein the master prosthetist that he was for decades at Shriners Hospitals for Children — St. Louis now were held tenderly in the hands of a former patient who h...

Condition

Torticollis

https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/Pediatric-Care/Torticollis

Torticollis is a muscle condition in the neck that causes a child's head to tilt to one side and the chin to tilt to the other. Shriners Children's physicians typically treat it with physical therapy or, depending on the severity, surgery.

Service

Dental Radiology

Shriners Children's offers dental radiology which uses painless X-ray machines such as pan ceph and CBCT, to show surgeons 3D views of a child's jaw bone, teeth and other facial structures. This helps with evaluation and treatment planning.