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In medical school, Lindley Wall, MD, a Washington University orthopedic surgeon at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, was fascinated by the details and biomechanics of the hand. Curiosity and science are in her DNA. Both her parents were college professors at University of Missouri-Columbia—her mother is ...

The Headache Clinic at St. Louis Children's Hospital treats children experiencing tension, migraine or cluster headaches. To learn more about treatment for child headaches, contact us today. ...

Liver failure is severe deterioration of liver function. Liver failure occurs when a large portion of the liver is damaged due to any type of liver disorder and the liver cannot perform its vital functions in the body, such as producing chemicals and filtering blood. ...

Osgood-Schlatter disease is a condition caused by overuse and occurs when the tendon in a knee becomes injured and inflamed. This tendon connects the thigh muscles to the knee and shin bone. ...

Radial longitudinal deficiency (RLD), also referred to as radial deficiency or radial club hand, is a rare birth defect where the radius bone in the forearm does not form properly causing the hand to bend towards the thumb side of the forearm causing limited movement ...

In 1987 at the University of Virginia, pediatric neurosurgeon T.S. Park, MD, sought to decrease the cerebral palsy spasticity of 5-year-old Sara Kate. He performed a new and somewhat controversial procedure that made her more comfortable and enabled her mother to better manage her care. ...

St. Louis Children’s Hospital offers outpatient corneal collagen cross-linking therapy. The therapy may improve the quality of eyesight in children at risk for a sight-threatening eye disease, keratoconus. ...

The ear can be divided into three sections: the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. The middle ear is an air-filled chamber that is connected to the nose and throat via a channel called the eustachian tube. Normally, air moves through this ...

Cancer predisposition syndrome, also called inherited cancer predisposition, hereditary cancer predisposition, or family cancer predisposition is a genetic mutation that increases the chances of developing cancer at an earlier age compared to the risk for the general population. ...

About 1 in 2,000 babies is affected by craniosynostosis, in which the sutures of the skull bones close too early. This leads to an abnormally shaped head not related to external factors. ...