For more than 90 years, Shriners Hospitals for Children has had a history of providing orthopaedic care in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Pediatric orthopaedic surgery has been a part of the multidisciplinary specialized care provided to patients at Shriners Hospitals for Children — Tampa since 1985.
Orthopaedic conditions treated
Upper extremity conditions
- Fingers: Syndactyly, macrodactyly, supernumerary digits, webbed fingers, trigger fingers
- Hand problems: Radial club hand, congenital abnormalities, VATER syndrome, TAR syndrome (thrombocytopenia absent radius) and radial hypoplasia, amniotic band syndrome
- Shoulder: Erb’s palsy (brachial plexus injury), birth-related shoulder trauma and dislocation
Read more about upper extremity conditions.
Lower extremity conditions
- Bowed legs: Idiopathic, Blount’s disease, rickets
- Foot problems: Club feet, vertical talus, bunions, pes planus, tarsal coalition, toe-walking
- Hip deformities: Perthes disease, slipped capital femoral epiphysis, congenital hip dislocation, developmental hip dysplasia
- Femoral anteversion, tibial torsion
- Knees: ACL, meniscus injury, arthroscopy, knock knees, Osgood Schlatter disease, patellar instability
- Limb length discrepancy and limb deficiencies
- Toes: Syndactyly, extra toes, supernumerary digits, webbed toes
Read more about lower extremity conditions.
Scoliosis and spine
- Neck: Torticollis
- Scoliosis, kyphosis, spondylolisthesis, spondylosis, lordosis, Scheuermann’s disease
Read more about spine conditions.
Other orthopaedic conditions and diseases
- Amputation: A complete or partial absence of a limb or limb segment, congenital (from birth) or acquired
- Deficiency: A complete or partial absence or one or more bones resulting in a deficient limb segment, congenital (from birth)
- Bone defects: Congenital, including psuedoarthrosis/tibia, traumatic non-unions
- Bone diseases: inherited rickets, hypophosphatasia and other metabolic bone diseases
- Dwarfism: achondroplasia
- Fracture care: non-emergent
- Dislocations: non-emergent, non-acute
- Benign bone tumors, benign soft tissue tumor
- Sports medicine: Knee, shoulder, elbow, ankle
- Trauma: Non-emergent follow-up, complications related to injury
- Osteogenesis imperfecta: A genetic, metabolic bone disease causing bones to break easily
Read more about osteogenesis imperfecta.
Muscular/neuromuscular disorders
- Cerebral palsy
- Spina bifida, related orthopaedic conditions, tethered spinal cord
- Nerve, muscular and connective tissue disorders: Charcot-Marie-Tooth, dermatomyositis, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, Marfan syndrome, anthrogryposis
Read more about muscular/neuromuscular conditions.
Gait abnormalities
Other conditions not listed above will be considered on an individual case-by-case basis with consideration given to the specialized care provided by this and other Shriners Hospitals for Children. If, during the referral/inquiry process, our clinical team determines the patient’s needs would be best met at another Shriners Hospitals for Children, the patient will be referred.
A collaborative approach to care
Shriners Hospitals for Children — Tampa is a place where hope and healing come together. Through our innovative care, we instill confidence and teach our patients there are no limits to what they can do. All patients and families, regardless of their medical condition or needs, can expect to benefit from the experience of a multidisciplinary team dedicated to the needs of your child. Our hospital helps ensure patients receive an optimal outcome by providing all aspects of inpatient and outpatient orthopaedic care, including surgery, rehabilitation, treatment, support and education.
The medical team
Maureen Maciel, M.D., Chief of Staff
Orthpaedic surgery
Dennis Grogan, M.D.
Cheryl Lawing, M.D.
Joseph Khoury, M.D.
Spine surgery
Geoffrey Cronen, M.D.
Hand surgery
Alfred Hess, M.D.
Michael Garcia, M.D.
Sports medicine
David Leffers, M.D.
Trey Remaley, D.O.
Endocrinology
Dorothy Shulman, M.D.
Danielle Gomez, M.D.
Pulmonology
Marisa Couluris, D.O.
Pediatrics
Chris Rossbach, M.D.