Healthy hips - Coping with a toddler in a body cast

Thursday, February 13, 2003

Editor's note: Associated Press medical writer Lauran Neergaard's 16-month-old daughter was immobilized in a waist-to-ankles cast for four months to correct a birth defect called hip dysplasia. Here is her story.

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