1st Orthopaedic Clinic
The 1st Orthopaedic Clinic of the “Agia Sophia” General Children’s Hospital provides high-level services to newborns, infants, children and adolescents with orthopaedic conditions.
The Clinic has extensive experience across the full spectrum of paediatric orthopaedics and applies modern techniques in both conservative and surgical management.
Areas of Expertise
Injuries of the growing skeleton – fractures
Management of axial, acquired and congenital deformities of the upper and lower limbs.
Limb length discrepancies – lengthening of long bones using modern external fixation systems, including Ilizarov.
Epiphysiodesis, hemiepiphysiodesis and corrective osteotomies.
Congenital malformations: syndactyly, polysyndactyly, clubfoot (Ponseti method).
Neuromuscular disorders – cerebral palsy: soft-tissue procedures, osteotomies and hip salvage procedures.
Sports injuries – arthroscopic surgery.
Osteochondral fractures, osteochondritis dissecans, knee conditions and ligament injuries.
Scoliosis and kyphosis – conservative and surgical management.
Neonatal hip ultrasound – Graf method
Congenital hip dislocation – open reduction, hip and pelvic osteotomies.
Neoplasms of the growing skeleton.
Regular Outpatient Clinics
- General Orthopaedics Clinic
- Fracture Clinic
- Neonatal Hip Clinic
- Scoliosis – Spine Clinic
- Neuromuscular Disorders Clinic