Growing Rods for Scoliosis in Children | Children Spine Specialist in UK

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www.mehtaspine.co.uk Clinical Secretary
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Growing Rods for Scoliosis in Children

• What Are Growing Rods?
• Unlike adults, children (below age 10) do not
  reach the skeletal maturity to undergo
  conventional spinal correction procedures.
• Young children diagnosed with Scoliosis need
  radically different spinal curvature treatment
  procedures which do not impede their natural body
  growth.
• While children with extreme Scoliosis cannot be
  treated with a cast or brace, they are also too
  young to endure Spinal Fusion Surgery.

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Growing Rods for Scoliosis

• Growing Rod surgical procedure is an effective
  spinal curvature correction procedure for
  children that can help correct the spinal
  curvature without impeding the natural growth of
  the child.
• Using this minimally invasive
  surgery procedure, custom made titanium rods are
  carefully attached to the spine at either end
  using screws or hooks by the Spinal Surgeon.
  These titanium rods are regularly extended in
  sync with the skeletal growth until the childs
  chest is sufficiently matured and the spine
  reaches its maximum length. And ultimately, a
  permanent spinal fusion procedure is performed by
  the Spinal Surgeon which prevents further spinal
  deformity and this can result in patients leading
  a healthy life without any complications.

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Growing Rods for Scoliosis

• Advances in technology have helped the Growing
  Rods procedures further improve their efficiency
  by making the whole procedure as minimally
  invasive as possible. There was a time when a
  patient has to undergo multiple complicated
  surgeries to undergo Scoliosis correction.
  Fortunately, with the availability of following
  state-of-art growing devices the procedure
  simplicity and efficiency is significantly
  increased

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Are Growing Rods Right for My Child?

• Growth-guided devices These system devices use a
  set of anchor points to implant the expandable
  rods on either side of the spine with the help of
  wires and screws. Thee rods are left in place and
  the growth factor of the spine stretches the rod
  while growing along the road. The rigid rods only
  expand in a vertical direction, thus correcting
  the spinal curvature over time.
• VEPTRs Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium
  Rib Devices entails an expandable metal rod
  system that is designed to provide more rib cage
  space for growing children while simultaneously
  correcting the abnormal spinal curvature as the
  child grows.

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Are Growing Rods Right for My Child?

• MCGRs Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods are
  advanced growing devices that do away with the
  need of performing multiple back surgeries as the
  child grows. The rods once implanted by the
  Spinal Surgeon are precisely expanded using a
  remote controller by using an external remote
  controller. This ability to elongate the rods
  according to the growth of the child makes this
  procedure one of the best minimally invasive
  procedures among the lot.
• With shorter
  recovery time, less medical costs hospital stay
  and minimal interruption to the childhood,
  Growing Rods procedure is the best spinal
  curvature treatment procedure available for
  children. This procedure can be used to
  efficiently treat Congenital, Neuromuscular, and
  Paediatric Scoliosis in younger children.

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Is Growing Rods Procedure Right for My Child?

• A Spinal Surgeon can treat a Scoliosis of a child
  using this procedure only when a Scoliosis
  Bracing technique proves to be inadequate in
  correcting the spinal curvature. In addition to
  this, the child must be young enough to rule out
  the possibility of Spinal Fusion.
• If you are living in the UK and are
  looking to consult an expert Spinal Surgeon for
  Scoliosis treatment of your child, then Mr.
  Jwalant S. Mehta is the Best Children and Adult
  Spinal Surgeon in UK with a remarkable track
  record in minimally invasive Scoliosis treatment
  procedures.

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Contact us

• Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
• BMI The Priory Hospital
• Spire Parkway Hospital
• Bromsgrove Private Clinic

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Contact and Connect

• Clinical secretary Samantha Leavy 44 785 021
  1939
• Medico-legal secretary Jan Clarke 44 121
  4508928
• Spire Parkway Hospital 0121 704 5500
• BMI NEC (National Enquiry Centre) 0808 101 0337
• BMI Priory 0121 446 1638
• Email info_at_mehtaspine.co.uk
• The appointments are booked through the clinic