A pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at USA Health is the first provider in Alabama to use a new pediatric hip implant and one of the first in the nation to use the implant to repair a fracture and reposition a bone in the same procedure. In October, Dr. William Cutchen, a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at USA Health, used the new 3P Pediatric Plating Platform Hip System to repair a rare femoral neck fracture in an adolescent girl’s hip at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital. The patient also had a deformity in the same hip known as coxa vara due to a previous fracture. The implant allowed Cutchen and the operative team to address the fracture and deformity in one setting. Correcting the deformity also reoriented the fracture to be in a better position to heal. The new…..