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Because growth plates are so important to skeletal development, specialists at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at ÃØÃÜÑо¿Ëù Langone carefully monitor children with growth plate injuries as they recover. If your child is treated with a cast, brace, or splint, the doctor may schedule follow-up appointments for three to six weeks. If your child is treated with surgery, the doctor may schedule follow-up visits three months, six months, and one year afterward to ensure the growth plate and bone are healing correctly.

As your child heals and grows, our specialists ask that you encourage your child to keep moving and to practice safe techniques—such as always wearing proper padding and safety gear during physical activity and warming up and stretching beforehand—in order to prevent another injury. Your child’s doctor can advise you on how to ease your child back into physical activity as he or she recovers, depending on the type of treatment your child has received.

Our child and family support services and resilience programs are provided by Sala Institute for Child and Family Centered Care.

Child Life Specialists

Our child life specialists are available to help your child cope with the stress that can result from an injury. During each stage of diagnosis and treatment, these specialists ensure children feel safe and more at home in a hospital setting.

Our child life specialists can talk with your child about a diagnostic test or treatment and explain why it is needed. A child life specialist may also stay with your child during a procedure to calm him or her and suggest ways for you to comfort your child. Before or after a procedure, a child life specialist can support your child with therapeutic play and pain management without medications.