Straight From The Hip

About Straight From The Hip

This podcast is for anyone who wants to learn more about pediatric hip problems, including developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH), slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE), and other conditions. I’ll be interviewing experts in the field to get their insights on the latest treatments and research. I aim to empower physicians, providers, and parents with the knowledge they need to make the best decisions.

Publisher

pablocastaneda

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Dec 2023

Latest episode

4 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

66 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Daphne Sorensen & Scalability, implementation and global reach

   Today I am joined by Daphne Sorensen, Chief Executive Officer of MiracleFeet. https://www.miraclefeet.org Daphne is not an orthopedic surgeon, and that is precisely what makes this conversation so useful. Her background is in international development, child rights, and global health systems, and under her leadership MiracleFeet has expanded a model that now supports clubfoot care across dozens of countries. Clubfoot is one of the clearest examples in pediatric musculoskeletal care of how a condition can be highly treatable and still cause lifelong disability when children are not identified, referred, or kept in care. MiracleFeet has helped turn the Ponseti method from a clinical treatment into a global delivery system, built around local providers, braces, family support, training, data, and follow-up. For those of us working in hip dysplasia, the challenge is different but familiar. The diagnosis is less obvious, the pathway is less uniform, and the treatment depends on age, imaging, stability, and many other factors. But the larger question is the same: how do we build systems that find children early and connect them to effective care? Our conversation ranges widely. We talk about global health, implementation, local clinical leadership, fundraising, data, and what makes a treatment scalable. We also talk about the culture around disability and deformity, including Frida Kahlo, whose own life and art remind us how deeply physical disability can shape identity, perception, and the way society looks at the body. Most of all, this is a conversation about moving beyond knowing what works and asking the harder question: how do we make sure it actually reaches the child who needs it?

2. 

   20 Sept 2026

   Whitney Casares & Body Image, Weight, and the Conversations That Shape Children

   Today I am joined by Dr. Whitney Casares, a pediatrician, author, and founder of Modern Mommy Doc. Whitney has built much of her work around a problem that every pediatric clinician recognizes: families are trying to make good decisions for their children while being exposed to an enormous amount of information, much of it conflicting, emotionally charged, or simply wrong. Her new book, Raising Body-Confident Kids, (https://a.co/d/08KEtBsa) looks at how parents can help children develop a healthy relationship with food, movement, health, and their own bodies without making weight or appearance the center of the conversation. That may sound slightly outside the usual territory of Straight from the Hip, but it is actually highly relevant to pediatric musculoskeletal care. As orthopedic surgeons, pediatricians, and parents, we frequently have to talk with children about movement, pain, weight, physical activity, body image, and health. Those conversations can help children, but handled poorly, they can also create shame, fear, or avoidance. So this episode is really about how we communicate. We talk about how parents process medical information, how social media changes those conversations before a clinician ever enters the room, how we can address genuine health concerns without stigmatizing children, and what clinicians can do differently when discussing weight, activity, and musculoskeletal health. It is a thoughtful conversation about evidence, language, and how we help families make better decisions without adding unnecessary anxiety.

3. 

   30 Aug 2026

   Min Kocher: Evidence, Judgment, and the Long Game in Orthopedic Surgery

   Today I am joined by Min Kocher, one of the most accomplished academic pediatric orthopedic surgeons of his generation. Min is Chief of the Division of Sports Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, holds the O’Donnell Family Endowed Chair, and is Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. His career has combined clinical practice, research, mentorship, sports medicine, and national leadership in a way that very few people have managed to do. Many listeners will know his name from the Kocher criteria, developed to help distinguish septic arthritis of the hip from transient synovitis in children. But that is only one part of a much broader career. He was also early in the development of pediatric sports medicine as a true specialty and in the use of hip arthroscopy in children and adolescents. What interested me most about this conversation, though, was not one operation or one paper. It was the arc of Min’s career and what it tells us about how pediatric orthopedics has changed. We talked about the move from experience-based medicine toward evidence and outcomes, how to use clinical rules without allowing them to replace judgment, what sports medicine taught pediatric orthopedics, and what pediatric orthopedics can still teach sports medicine. We also talked about academic careers, mentorship, leadership, institutional culture, and how your priorities change when the goal is no longer simply to build your own career, but to help build the careers of the people who come after you. This is a conversation about evidence, judgment, leadership, and the long view of pediatric orthopedics.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

25 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

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Quality

76

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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