International Center for Limb Lengthening, RIAO, Sinai Hospital

International Center for Limb Lengthening, RIAO, Sinai Hospital The Center specializes in successfully treating orthopedic problems, even when previous treatments at other centers have failed.

The ICLL is a global leader in orthopedics, specializing in limb lengthening and reconstruction, and provides compassionate and comprehensive patient-centered care. The International Center for Limb Lengthening (ICLL) in Baltimore, Maryland, provides compassionate, comprehensive care for children and adults with complex orthopedic conditions. The team is made up of world-renowned physicians Drs. John Herzenberg (emeritus faculty), Philip McClure, Janet Conway, Michael Assayag, and Noman Siddiqui. Patients from all 50 United States and over 60 countries from six continents have traveled to the ICLL to receive comprehensive orthopedic treatment. The ICLL is a global leader in limb lengthening and deformity correction. We successfully treat a wide variety of conditions including:
• Upper and lower limb length discrepancies
• Limb deformities
• Nonunions
• Bone defects
• Bone infections
• Foot and ankle deformities
• Joint contractures
• Perthes disease
• Clubfoot
• Charcot and diabetic foot deformities
• Congenital femoral deficiency
• Brachymetatarsia
• Ankle arthritis
• Achondroplasia and other types of dwarfism
• Fibular hemimelia
• Short stature

10/31/2025

All of us at the ICLL wish you a happy Halloween full of tricks & treats!

10/30/2025

We had a wonderful day at the Robert I. Damie Race for Our Kids event at the Maryland Zoo on Sunday! Team RIAO/LBR/Batman, captained by Pediatric Liaison Marilyn Richardson, included many RIAO staff members and their families. Several amazing ICLL patient families’ teams raised significant donations for the Rubin Institute’s Save-A-Limb Fund. Join us in a shout out to the Magnolia Flowers and Adonis’ Army teams that joined Team RIAO/LBR/Batman among the top 10 fundraising teams!
Thank you to everyone who came out for the event, raised funds and made donations to support our patients with complex limb conditions. If you didn’t get a chance to participate, it’s not too late to make a donation to Team RIAO/LBR/Batman to support the Save-A-Limb Fund here: https://bit.ly/SupportSAL25 Please be sure to designate the Save-A-Limb Fund as the beneficiary of your donation.

October is National Physical Therapy Month!  We introduced you to our pediatric orthopedic physical therapists over the ...
10/29/2025

October is National Physical Therapy Month! We introduced you to our pediatric orthopedic physical therapists over the last two months, but we want to give a shout-out to the entire ICLL PT Team now! These team members play a critical role in helping our patients of all ages gain mobility and strength to get back to doing the activities they love after surgery.

10/28/2025

Thank you to everyone who helped make our Save-A-Limb Fund Night at the National Aquarium such a great splash! RIAO team members and patient families enjoyed delicious food, winning prizes, and seeing the aquarium’s spectacular Blue Wonders exhibit. Special thanks to all our staff who contributed such wonderful prize baskets. Together, we raised support to better the lives of ICLL patients with complex limb conditions.

You are invited to our free online chat on Thursday, October 30th at 8:30 PM EDT to discuss limb length discrepancies, s...
10/27/2025

You are invited to our free online chat on Thursday, October 30th at 8:30 PM EDT to discuss limb length discrepancies, skeletal dysplasias (including achondroplasia), and other miscellaneous orthopedic conditions including but not limited to nonunions, malunions, pseudarthrosis, growth arrests, polio, genu varum, SED/MED, pterygium, and arthrogryposis. Please note this is a group, typed (not video) chat room where you can ask our doctors questions.

To receive login information, *e-mail* icll@lifebridgehealth.org no later than 2 PM EDT on the day of the chat (earlier is better!). Please use the subject line "Chat – Misc." and provide your name, the patient’s name, diagnosis, and any treatment received, and where you are from so we can send you instructions. Please note that we will *not* open any attachments or links unless the information requested above is included in the body of the email. We look forward to chatting with you soon!

Today is Dwarfism Awareness Day! Join us in recognizing and celebrating all our ICLL patients with achondroplasia and ot...
10/25/2025

Today is Dwarfism Awareness Day! Join us in recognizing and celebrating all our ICLL patients with achondroplasia and other forms of dwarfism!

Join us this weekend for two fun-filled events to benefit the Save-A-Limb Fund! First up is the Save-A-Limb Fund Night a...
10/24/2025

Join us this weekend for two fun-filled events to benefit the Save-A-Limb Fund! First up is the Save-A-Limb Fund Night at the National Aquarium on Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 7:00-9:30 pm. Enjoy light fare and seeing the aquarium’s spectacular Blue Wonders exhibit. You can purchase tickets here: https://bit.ly/SALAqua. You can earn free tickets by participating as a fundraiser in the Robert I. Damie Race for Our Kids event, which is being held the next day on October 26, 2025, at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore! If you raise $500 for Race for Our Kids, you get 4 complimentary aquarium tickets, and if you raise $1000, you will receive 6 tickets.

You can find full details for the Race for Our Kids one-mile fun walk or 5K race here: https://bit.ly/RFOK25. You are welcome to join our Team RIAO/LBR/Batman, create your own team, or go solo. We hope you can join us for both fun-filled events benefiting the Save-A-Limb Fund!

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Assayag and Dr. Janet Conway on being named “Top Docs!” They will appear in Baltimore Mag...
10/23/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Assayag and Dr. Janet Conway on being named “Top Docs!” They will appear in Baltimore Magazine’s November 2025 “Top Doctors” issue, an annual recognition of physicians named by their peers in a survey of whom they would choose to care for a member of their own family. The Rubin Institute’s interim chairman, Dr. James Nace, and LifeBridge Health’s Sports Medicine Institute’s medical director, Dr. Craig Bennett, also received this honor.

The ICLL was well represented at the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, earlier th...
10/22/2025

The ICLL was well represented at the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, earlier this month. Dr. Conway taught a Gastroc Flap Class as part of their Soft Tissue Coverage Skills Course. ICLL Research Fellow Dr. Amir Human Hoveidaei presented his team’s research on negative hip fracture surgery outcomes among the U.S. homeless population. Wendy Robinson also staffed an exhibit booth, sharing information on ICLL physician education programs.

Please join us on Thursday, October 23rd at 8:30 PM EDT to discuss PERTHES disease/AVN (avascular necrosis) in children ...
10/20/2025

Please join us on Thursday, October 23rd at 8:30 PM EDT to discuss PERTHES disease/AVN (avascular necrosis) in children and young adults during our free online chat. Please note this is a group, typed (not video) chat room where you can ask our doctors questions about Perthes disease and treatments.

To receive login information, *e-mail* icll@lifebridgehealth.org no later than 2 PM EDT on the day of the chat (earlier is better). Please make the subject of your email "Chat - Perthes" and include your name and the patient’s name, age, any treatment received, and where you are from. We need that brief history before we can send out the instructions. Please note that we will *not* open any attachments, website links, Dropbox links, etc. unless the above information is included in the body of the email. We look forward to chatting with you!

It’s not too late to sign up for two fun-filled events to benefit the Save-A-Limb Fund being held next weekend! First up...
10/17/2025

It’s not too late to sign up for two fun-filled events to benefit the Save-A-Limb Fund being held next weekend! First up is the Save-A-Limb Fund Night at the National Aquarium on Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 7:00-9:30 pm. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and seeing the aquarium’s spectacular Blue Wonders exhibit. Tickets can be purchased at https://bit.ly/SALAqua. You can earn free tickets by participating as a fundraiser in the Robert I. Damie Race for Our Kids event, which is being held the next day on October 26, 2025, at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore! If you raise $500 for Race for Our Kids, you get 4 complimentary aquarium tickets, and if you raise $1000, you receive 6 tickets.

To register for the Race for Our Kids one-mile fun walk or 5K race, please visit bit.ly/RFOK25 for full details. You are welcome to join our Team RIAO/LBR/Batman, create your own team, or go solo. We hope you can join us for both fun-filled events benefiting the Save-A-Limb Fund!

Rena and Carter were both comforted by their awesome fleece medical ponchos donated by Cape Ivy! We are so grateful to C...
10/16/2025

Rena and Carter were both comforted by their awesome fleece medical ponchos donated by Cape Ivy! We are so grateful to Cape Ivy for their donation made in memory of Gavin Smith who sadly lost his battle with a rare form of CVID. His mother remembered how cold hospital hallways could get and wanted to do something to physically and emotionally warm other pediatric patients, and these wonderful capes do exactly that. Cape Ivy

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2401 West Belvedere Avenue, Sinai Hospital, Rubin Institute For Advanced Orthopedics, Schoeneman, 2nd Floor
Baltimore, MD
21215

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+14106012663

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The International Center for Limb Lengthening (ICLL) of the Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics in Baltimore, Maryland is a global leader in limb lengthening and deformity correction, providing comprehensive orthopedic treatment to children and adults from all 50 states and more than 60 countries. The Center specializes in successfully treating complex orthopedic problems, even when previous treatments at other centers have failed. Orthopedic surgeons from around the world come to learn from our team of expert, fellowship-trained surgeons, Dr. John Herzenberg, Dr. Shawn Standard, Dr. Janet Conway, Dr. Christopher Bibbo, Dr. Noman Siddiqui, Dr. Michael Assayag and Dr. Philip McClure. Conditions treated at the ICLL include upper and lower limb length discrepancies, limb deformities, fractures, nonunions, malunions, bone defects, bone and joint infections, foot and ankle deformities, Perthes disease, clubfoot, radial club hand, Charcot and diabetic foot deformities, congenital femoral deficiency, proximal femoral focal deficiency, fibular hemimelia, ankle arthritis, achondroplasia and other types of dwarfism, and short stature (cosmetic lengthening) among other conditions. We use cutting-edge technology and the latest proven techniques to treat our patients’ complex orthopedic conditions. The International Center for Limb Lengthening is located on the second floor of the Schoeneman Building of Sinai Hospital. Some of our doctors also see patients on the first floor of Sinai Hospital's Morton Mower Building, at LifeBridge Health at Foundry Row in Owings Mills, at Northwest Hospital in Randallstown and in Westminster.