{"id":1756,"date":"2012-03-10T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:55:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:55:01","slug":"hanna-hartley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/hanna-hartley\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanna&#8217;s chance to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1757\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/03\/10\/hanna-hartley\/348500-hanna-hartley\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1757\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1757 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/348500-hanna-hartley-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Hanna Hartley. Photo courtesy of Herald Sun photographer Ben Swinnerton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH)\u00a0patient Hanna Hartley has scoliosis and was one of the first Australians to have\u00a0a Phenix Rod inserted to straighten her curved spine and allow her to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Hanna, who\u00a0also has spina bifida, a birth defect that damages the spine and spinal cord, has grown more than 8cm since the rod was inserted two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital orthopaedic unit deputy director Ian Torode said just a dozen Australians had so far had the rods in their backs.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional rods prevented children from growing through their backs, but the Phenix Rod lengthened, allowing growth, Mr Torode said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Hanna celebrated her 12th birthday at the RCH.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hanna Hartley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/hannas-on-the-up-and-up-after-a-successful-medical-procedure\/story-fn7x8me2-1226295351241\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) patient Hanna Hartley has scoliosis and was one of the first Australians to have a Phenix Rod inserted to straighten her curved spine and allow her to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}