Yesterday, the girl walking with a slight limp Jing Jing (a pseudonym) came to the orthopedic department of the Union Hospital under the leadership of her mother. The doctor regrets to say that because of the improper handling of that surgery six months ago, the child’s bone development was affected and the femoral head has necrosis. Earlier this year, 7-year-old Jingjing fell from a 1-meter-high terrace, causing a fracture of the left femoral neck. A county hospital treated her with the hollow nail fixation commonly used for adults. Last week, Jingjing’s mother noticed that her daughter’s left leg was slightly shorter than her right leg, before rushing the child to the hospital. After examination, doctors believe that the child’s injury is more critical, the initial surgery should avoid the use of hollow nail fixation. Dr. Du Jingyuan, chief orthopedic surgeon at Concord Hospital, said that children’s fractures are usually combined with epiphyseal injuries, which may result in skeletal developmental deformities such as crooked, short, or oblique bones and high disability rates, so treatment requires a combination of factors and treatment techniques. The treatment of adult fractures is not always suitable for children, so if we blindly treat them as a scaled-down version of adults, it will not only increase the damage to the fracture, but also expand the treatment and lead to overtreatment. To be on the safe side, she recommends that children with fractures under the age of 18 should be treated by a pediatric orthopedic surgeon.