Hamstring Lengthening Care
Your orthopaedic doctor recommends that your child have surgery to lengthen the hamstring. This surgery releases tightness at the knee.
After hamstring lengthening surgery is done, the child is often sent home the same day. Your child will come back from surgery with a leg cast. This cast goes from toe to mid thigh, above the knee. The cast will stay on about three weeks.
When you take your child home, you will be given a prescription for pain medication and medicine that will help relax your child's muscles.
The cast is normally removed at the orthopaedic doctor's office. Braces may be recommended after surgery. Your nurse will discuss where to take the child to have the brace made if it is not available at the office.
Usually 4 to 6 weeks after the cast has been removed, you will have an appointment with your orthopaedic doctor. Please call the orthopaedic clinic nurse or your orthopaedic doctor if you have any questions or problems.
Contact Us
To reach the Orthopaedic Nurse before 4 pm, Monday through Friday, please call 513-636-4567. After 4 pm, and during weekends and holidays, please call 513-636-4200 and ask that the Orthopaedic Resident on call be paged.
For additional information on this or any health topic, please call the Family Resource Center, 513-636-7606, or your pediatrician.
PEP 2090 II 7/94
Rev. 10/05, 8/07
