Simple to use and extremely valuable for any pediatric orthopedist or pediatrician

The Multiplier app is an extremely useful tool for any clinician treating children. It allows predictions of growth based on current measurements by applying multipliers for various age/sex/specific clinical questions.

While these predictions were derived with often cumbersome and complex formulae, the app simplifies and streamlines and involves simply typing in some values. The app will provide answers and will break it down to allow a thorough understanding of expected measurement throughout the remainder of growth. This not only provides the clinician with valuable information through which to make treatment decisions, but also provides detailed predictions to better educate patients and their families as to expectations, as well as their treatment options.

I use it all the time for calculations such as expected leg length discrepancies at maturity (as well as the breakdown year to year), expected height at maturity, timing of angular correction for hemiepiphysiodesis, as well as timing of epiphysiodesis.

I share this information with my patients so that can appreciate the options available to them. They find it easy to understand and helpful to manage expectations and understand treatment options.

Other resources available through this app include standard values for the lower limbs, the original formulae, simplified ways for predicting skeletal age, timing of appearance of apophyses and a number of other useful features.

I highly recommend this app to efficiently provide critical information for planning treatment, even at the patients first visit. Patients and families appreciate the simplified predictions that really help them make informed decisions about treatment.

Any orthopedic surgeon who treats children, any pediatrician looking for a simple to use resource for growth information or anyone looking for information on expected growth should download this app. I really find it indispensable.

KidsOrtho about Multiplier, v5.0