Category: News & Updates
A Closer Look at Children’s Hospital of New York
Posted on November 12, 2016
Research performed by Drs. David Roye and Michael Vitale as a part of the Children’s Spine Foundation has led the study of quality of life for patients with early onset scoliosis. The questionnaire developed by the team at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian is now used at 29 institutions around the world. Read More
Dr. Michael Vitale, Pediatric Orthopedics, featured in the Columbia Orthopedics Newsletter – ISSUE 10
Posted on October 20, 2016
Get to know the faculty — Dr. Michael Vitale, Pediatric Orthopedics: Do you have a role model or mentor and if so, who? I have been fortunate to have many role models. Very early, my father, a still-practicing pediatric orthopedic surgeon, modeled for ... Read More
PreOp Spine Class for Patients
Posted on October 12, 2016
Nov. 14, 2016: We would like to invite you to this preop class to help prepare you and your child for your surgery this winter. There will be a class held on November 14th, 6:00-8:00 PM. Our next one will be ... Read More
Children’s Spine Foundation Annual Report 2015
Posted on March 21, 2016
“Look closely at the present you are constructing. It
should look like the future you are dreaming.”
– Alice Walker
As a father, clinician, and President of the Children’s Spine Foundation, I know this sentiment is never more true than when we help children and families dealing with complex spine deformity.
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Orthopedics-Neurosurgery Focus on Quality Improves Pediatric Spine Measures
Posted on March 16, 2016
In this new era of health care, quality measures are becoming the driving factor among health care institutions. Physicians, surgeons and hospitals are being compared with other facilities and health care professionals. At NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at Columbia University ... Read More
Pediatric Scoliosis Patients Improve Posture With Smart Bracing, Schroth Method
Posted on March 15, 2016
From NewYork-Presbyterian Newsletter, March, 2016: In the last five years, researchers and physicians have learned that early treatment of scoliosis can resolve many spinal deformities that adolescents and adults encounter later in life. Techniques such as early casting, bracing and specialized ... Read More
17 of the Top North American Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeons
Posted on February 18, 2016
By Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.ED. Despite the critical nature of pediatric orthopedics, most don’t flock to this subspecialty. One reason? It is emotionally challenging. But some do…and here is a subset of real standouts. A note to readers: We don’t have “the ... Read More
Boy, 6, with Scoliosis is First in New York Area to Get Magnetic Spine Lengthening Treatment
Posted on August 14, 2014
Courtesy NY Daily News Call it medical magic — make that MAGEC (Magnetic Spine Lengthening Treatment). Doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital are now reaching for the handheld MAGEC device instead of their scalpel when they treat patients with early-onset scoliosis, characterized by a spinal ... Read More
Spinal Fusion NOT Recommended Treatment for Early-Onset Scoliosis
Posted on September 29, 2007
While spinal fusion has been shown to improve quality of life and life expectancy in adolescents who have achieved normal pulmonary capacity before the onset of scoliosis, this treatment has quite a different result in skeletally immature children. In these ... Read More
Spasticity: Balancing Treatment Options
Posted on July 29, 2007
Children with neuromuscular disorders can develop a wide range of problems as a result of the overactivity or spacticity of their muscles. Fortunately, their are a wide range of treatment options for affected children. As a child grows and muscle ... Read More