Hand and Orthopedic Upper Extremity Program
Pediatric Care for the Hand and Upper Extremity
The Orthopedic Center's Hand and Orthopedic Upper Extremity Program provides comprehensive care for infants, children and adolescents with a wide range of complex hand and upper limb conditions (shoulder, arm, elbow, and wrist).
With more than 3,500 pediatric visits, and over 700 surgical procedures performed each year, our team of surgeons, nurses, hand therapists and prosthetists, is one of the most experienced in the country. In addition, our experts specialize in caring for children with brachial plexus birth palsies.
Our specialties
Under the direction of Peter M. Waters, MD, clinical chief of the Orthopedic Center, and the director of the Brachial Plexus and Hand and Orthopedic Upper Extremity programs, and Donald S. Bae, MD, associate in orthopedic surgery, we provide multidisciplinary care involving occupational and physical therapy, splinting, casting and reconstructive surgeries for the following conditions:
- congenital
- neuromuscular
- sports-related
- soft tissue and microvascular
- traumatic or post-traumatic
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tumors: benign and malignant
Contact us
For more information about our services, or to schedule an appointment or consultation, please call 617-355-6021.
For families residing outside of the United States, please call Boston Children's International Health Services at 01-617-355-5209.
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Conditions & Treatments
- Aneurysmal bone cyst
- Broken arm
- Broken forearm
- Cleft hand
- Congenital limb defects
- Dislocated shoulder
- Enchondroma
- Fibrosarcoma
- Growth plate fractures
- Little league shoulder
- Madelung's deformity
- Osteochondroma (exostosis)
- Radial club hand
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Shoulder instability
- Symbrachydactyly
- Synovial sarcoma
- Thumb hypoplasia/aplasia
- Ulnar club hand
- Arthrogryposis
- Broken elbow
- Camptodactyly
- Clinodactyly
- Constriction ring syndrome
- Dislocations
- Ewing sarcoma
- Fractures
- Little league elbow
- Macrodactyly
- Orthopedic Center
- Polydactyly
- Radioulnar synostosis
- Shoulder dislocation
- Simple Bone Cyst (unicameral)
- Syndactyly
- Thumb duplication (pre-axial polydactyly)
- Trigger Thumb
- Vascular malformations, tumors and hemangiomas

