Orthopaedic Surgery
Scoliosis Center
The Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital offers comprehensive care for infants, children, and adolescents with scoliosis and spinal deformities. Our orthopaedic surgeons work collaboratively with pediatric specialists throughout the Hospital. Every specialty is represented from pediatric anesthesia and intensive care to pediatric neurology, pulmonology and cardiology. Spinal cord monitoring at Scoliosis Center is performed by the world renowned neurophysiology division at Columbia University. We perform routine monitoring of somatosensory evoked potentials and motor evoked potentials.
More children's spine surgery is performed at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital than any other center in New York. Surgery for infantile scoliosis, juvenile scoliosis, and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis are frequently performed. The Scoliosis Center is engaged in cutting edge research including investigations into the effect of chest wall deformity on pulmonary development, outcomes of various treatments for scoliosis and spine deformity, and the effect of spine deformity on quality of life.
The Scoliosis Center provides the most advanced care for children and adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. Our bracing program is integrated into the offices with the orthotist available for immediate consultation with the physician at every visit. When surgery is indicated, it is performed using state-of-the-art blood salvage techniques and spinal cord monitoring techniques.
Innovative surgery is performed at the Scoliosis Center. Our surgeons perform expansion thoracoplasty in infants and children with thoracic insufficiency syndrome. These children have early onset spine and chest wall deformity that threatens lung growth. We perform thoracoscopic surgery in indicated cases thus avoiding long incisions in the chest wall.
Our faculty members belong to the professional organizations and the national collaborative groups that monitor the outcomes of surgery. The physicians of the Scoliosis Center of New York are leading the field in the application and evaluation of new techniques.
