Children’s Orthopaedics in Edinburgh

Mr Mark Gaston has expertise in and commonly treats the following conditions in children and adolescents.

Children’s and Adolescent’s Feet:

• Flat feet
• Intoeing
• Foot and ankle surgery
• Painful feet
• Clubfeet (Talipes Equinovarus)
• Cavo-varus (high arched) feet
• All other paediatric foot and ankle problems

 

For more information on foot and ankle surgery in children and adolescents follow this link

 

Children’s and Adolescent’s back / spine

• Assessment of back pain and spinal problems / deformity in children and adolescents (Mr Gaston does not perform spinal surgery or specific treatment, but onward referral can be made if this is necessary) including:
  • Scoliosis
  • Spondylolisthesis
  • Disc prolapse (slipped disc)
  • Muscular pain

 

Children’s and Adolescent’s Knees:

• Knock Knees and Bowlegs
• Knee surgery
• Knee ligament and cartilage problems including sports injuries
• Knee pain
• All other paediatric knee conditions

 

For more information on knee surgery in children and adolescents follow this link

 

Children’s and Adolescent’s Hips:

• Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (dislocated hips)
  
• Perthes’ Disease
• Slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE)
  
• Hip pain

 

Growing Problems:

• Deformity (twisting) of the arms or legs
  
• Leg length discrepancy (difference in length of legs)

 

Upper Limb (arms):

• All paediatric orthopaedic conditions of the upper limb including injuries, fractures, deformity and neuromuscular conditions

 

Children’s and Adolescent’s injuries and fractures (trauma):

• Deformity, pain and other problems following injuries

 

Bone and / or joint infection in children

• Infection

 

Rare paediatric conditions

• e.g. Osteogenesis Imperfecta – which can cause Orthopaedic problems

 

The limping child

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Mr Mark Gaston also has specialist expertise in dealing with the orthopaedic aspects of children with neuromuscular conditions such as cerebral palsy. This is dealt with in the Neuro-Orthopaedics section of this website.

For further information on many of these conditions, please visit the NHS Choices website:

Further information for GPs is available on the NHS Scotland guidance website – Ref Help.