RaeAnne, Ms. Wheelchair USA 2024-2025 visited her old children's hospital to encourage patients and reunite with staff on her care team in the pediatric specialty hospital's spinal cord injury program.
We offer physical medicine & rehabilitation physicians, pediatric physical, occupational and speech therapy in a family-centered environment. Treatment specialties cover a wide variety of orthopedic and neurologic conditions, as well as sports injuries. In addition, our Shriners Chicago team was among the first in the country to specialize in pediatric spinal cord injury. We have provided specialty care to 1,000 kids with spinal cord injury since 1983.
Physicians and specialists at Shriners Children's Chicago are united in a mission to provide the highest quality care to children in a compassionate, family-centered environment in a destination hospital on the outskirts of Chicago. Our medical team is comprised of board-certified orthopedic surgeons, spine surgeons and plastic surgeons. Our more than 80 attending and consulting physicians are among the leaders in teaching, treatment and research in pediatric orthopedics worldwide.