Orthopaedics

John Hunter Children's Hospital Orthopaedic Service delivers a primary and specialist care service to children and young people within the Hunter New England Local Health District. Orthopaedics services provide a 24 hour, acute, tertiary level service for injuries and conditions affecting bones, muscles and joints.

The Department has a multidisciplinary team, consisting of Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeons', Paediatric Orthopaedic Registrars, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and a Clinical Nurse Consultant.

Orthopaedic Clinics

Paediatric Orthopaedic Clinics are provided by Associate Professor Eric Ho and Dr Sandeep Tewari, along with a Clinical Nurse Consultant.

Paediatric Orthopaedic services treat children from from 0-18 years of age and those who live in the Hunter New England Local Health District area and Northern NSW.

The Paediatric Orthopaedic Service treats children with musculoskeletal disorders and injuries, which include:

Congenital
Genetics
Infectious diseases
Metabolic
Neurological
Oncology
Spinal
Trauma

There are a range of specialty clinics for:

Hip monitoring/treatment
Cerebral Palsy
Talipes Equinovarus (Club Foot)
Spina Bifida
General Orthopaedic Conditions

No appointment can be made without a referral. Appointments will be allocated after assessment by an Orthopaedic Specialist.

Programs and Services We Offer

Bone & Extremity Tumours
Club Foot & Foot Disorders
Deformity Correction in Lower Limbs
Genetic Skeletal Disorders
Growth Disturbances
Hip Screening & Treatment
Infectious Diseases Therapy
Limb Lengthening
Metabolic Disorders
Neuromuscular Disorders (including cerebral palsy)
Spinal Disorders and Scoliosis (including bracing)
Trauma & Fracture Treatment

Paediatric Orthopaedic conditions treated at John Hunter Children's Hospital

Achondroplasia	Arthrogryposis
Brittle bone disease	Cerebral Palsy
Chondrodysplasia	Club feet
Congenital Talipes Equinovarus	Connective Tissue Dysplasia
CTEV	Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH)
Dwarfism	Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Flat Feet	Foot Surgery
Fractures	Genetic disorders
Infectious Diseases	Intoeing
Klinefelter Syndrome	Klippel-feil Syndrome
Marfan	MRSA
Muscular dystrophy	Neuromuscular disorders
Oncology	Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Osteomyelitis	Perthe's disease
Pigeon toe	Posterior Medial Release
Rare chromosomal disorders	Rickets
Scoliosis	Septic Arthritis
Short stature	Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
Spina bifida	Spinal conditions
Subtalar Fusion	Talipes Equinovarus
Tarsal Coalition	Tendon Lengthening
Tendon Transfer	Transient Synovitis
Traumatic Injuries	Triple Arthrodesis
Tumours

Referrals

John Hunter Children's Hospital Outpatient Department

Level 2, John Hunter Children's Hospital

Lookout Road
New Lambton Heights
Hours: 8.30am - 4.30pm Monday to Friday

Telephone:	(02)49 213750
Facsimile:	(02)49 223904

The Royal Newcastle Centre

For trauma and non-elective related orthopaedic follow-up appointments for patients disharged from John Hunter Children's Hospital who are not Professor Ho or Dr Trewari patients.

The Paediatric Orthopaedic Registrar conducts a paediatric fracture clinic on Tuesday afternoons.

For appointments please contact:
Referral Management Centre (outpatient clinic appointments)
Royal Newcastle Centre
Lookout Road
New Lambton Heights
Hours: 8.30am - 4.30pm Monday to Friday

Telephone:	(02)49 223912
Fax:	(02)49 213301

Use SeNT eReferral to send referrals to HNELHD. If your GP management system does not support SeNT, you may FAX referral to (02)49 213301.

There are also other clinics for individual Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Appointments can be arranged by phoning the same number and requesting a clinic appointment under your child's particular surgeon.