Stacey D. Miller

Overview: Stacey has a special interest is in hip displacement and hip surveillance in children with cerebral palsy. As the Coordinator of the Child Health BC Hip Surveillance Program for Children with Cerebral Palsy, the first surveillance program of its kind in North America, she has been involved with the development, implementation, and management of this new provincial program.
Publications: Surgeon Recommendations for Physical Activity in Patients with Pediatric Hip Conditions
Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0000000000002732
2024
The Effect of Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy on Hip Displacement in Children With Cerebral Palsy: A Long-term Follow-up Study
Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0000000000002473
2023
Late Hip Displacement Identified in Children at Gross Motor Function Classification System II and III With Asymmetric Diplegia and Fixed Pelvic Obliquity
JAAOS: Global Research and Reviews
Stacey Miller and Lise Leveille and Maria Juricic and Kishore Mulpuri
DOI: 10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-20-00094
09/2022
Cerebral palsy diagnosis and the impact on hip surveillance enrollment
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
Coates, J. and Mulpuri, K. and Farr, J. and Miller, S.D.
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.15188
2022
Effect of positioning error on the Hilgenreiner epiphyseal angle and the head-shaft angle compared to the femoral neck-shaft angle in children with cerebral palsy
Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B
Sullivan, E.S. and Jones, C. and Miller, S.D. and Lee, K.M. and Park, M.S. and Wilson, D.R. and Mulpuri, K. and d?Entremont, A.G.
DOI: 10.1097/BPB.0000000000000923
2022
A Review of Radiology Reports from Hip Surveillance Radiographs for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Miller, S.D. and Coates, J. and Bone, J.N. and Farr, J. and Mulpuri, K.
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0000000000002183
2022
Unilateral versus bilateral reconstructive hip surgery in children with cerebral palsy: A survey of pediatric orthopedic surgery practice and decision-making
Journal of Children's Orthopaedics
Miller, S.D. and Juricic, M. and Baraza, N. and Fajardo, N. and So, J. and Schaeffer, E.K. and Shore, B.J. and Narayanan, U. and Mulpuri, K.
DOI: 10.1177/18632521221121846
2022
Hip Surveillance for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Survey of Orthopaedic Surgeons in India
Indian Journal of Orthopaedics
Jacqueline Li and Dhiren Ganjwala and Ashok Johari and Stacey Miller and Emily K. Schaeffer and Kishore Mulpuri and Alaric Aroojis
DOI: 10.1007/s43465-021-00432-3
06/2021
Physical Therapists Are Key to Hip Surveillance for Children with Cerebral Palsy: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Knowledge Translation to Support Program Implementation
Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics
Stacey Miller and Maureen O’Donnell and Kishore Mulpuri
DOI: 10.1080/01942638.2020.1851337
05/2021
Variability in Postoperative Immobilization and Rehabilitation Following Reconstructive Hip Surgery in Nonambulatory Children With Cerebral Palsy
Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Stacey D. Miller and Maria Juricic and Nandy Fajardo and Judy So and Benjamin J. Shore and Unni G. Narayanan and Kishore Mulpuri
DOI: 10.1097/bpo.0000000000001850
05/2021
Suspension of Hip Surveillance for Children with Cerebral Palsy During the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Benefit of Hip Surveillance Does Not Outweigh the Risk of Infection.
Indian journal of orthopaedics
DOI: 10.1007/s43465-020-00236-x
PubMed: 32873988
08/2020
Inter-rater and Intrarater Reliabilities of the Identification of a “Gothic Arch” in the Acetabulum of Children With Cerebral Palsy
Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
DOI: 10.1097/bpo.0000000000001615
06/2020
Orthopedic Hip Surgery for Patients with Cerebral Palsy
Orthopedic Care of Patients with Cerebral Palsy
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46574-2_6
2020
Developing a province-wide hip surveillance program for children with cerebral palsy: from evidence to consensus to program implementation: a mini-review.
Journal of pediatric orthopedics. Part B
DOI: 10.1097/bpb.0000000000000707
PubMed: 31821270
12/2019
Hip Surveillance is Important to Children with Cerebral Palsy
JAAOS: Global Research and Reviews
DOI: 10.5435/jaaosglobal-d-19-00021
04/2019
Prevention of hip displacement in children with cerebral palsy: a systematic review
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
Stacey D Miller and Maria Juricic and Kim Hesketh and Lynore Mclean and Sonja Magnuson and Sherylin Gasior and Emily Schaeffer and Maureen O'donnell and Kishore Mulpuri
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.13480
11/2017
Agreement between a Physical Therapist and an Orthopedic Surgeon in Children Referred for Gait Abnormalities
Pediatric Physical Therapy
Miller, S. and Harris, S.R. and Mulpuri, K.
DOI: 10.1097/PEP.0000000000000207
2016
Long-term outcome after selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic cerebral palsy
Child's Nervous System
Ailon, T. and Beauchamp, R. and Miller, S. and Mortenson, P. and Kerr, J.M. and Hengel, A.R. and Steinbok, P.
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-015-2614-9
2015
Selective dorsal rhizotomy in children: comparison of outcomes after single-level versus multi-level laminectomy technique.
Canadian journal of neuroscience nursing
Ou, C. and Kent, S. and Miller, S. and Steinbok, P.
2010
Electrophysiologically guided versus non-electrophysiologically guided selective dorsal rhizotomy for spastic cerebral palsy: A comparison of outcomes
Child's Nervous System
Steinbok, P. and Tidemann, A.J. and Miller, S. and Mortenson, P. and Bowen-Roberts, T.
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-009-0908-5
2009
Research: Current Projects
Hip Surveillance - Children with cerebral palsy are at known to be at risk for hip displacement with the degree of risk directly related to their level of motor function. Hip surveillance program for children with cerebral palsy first began in Sweden and Australia and have been shown to reduce the incidence of hip displacement and the need for salvage hip procedures. The Child Health BC Hip Surveillance Program for Children with Cerebral Palsy was established based on work by a multidisciplinary group of over 50 parents, pediatric orthopaedic surgeons, developmental pediatricians, pediatricians, general physicians, a radiologist, physiotherapists, other health care professionals, and policy makers from all regions of the province. The program, the first of it's kind in North America, launched in 2014 with the aim to ensure that all children in BC at risk for hip displacement receive appropriate screening and are referred to a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at the appropriate time to minimize or prevent complications associated with hip dislocations. A comprehensive evaluation plan has anchored the development of the program.

Honours & Awards

Award of Excellence with Distinction, BC Children’s Hospital & Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, Awarded 2008.
2017 Fred P. Sage Award, American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine for creation of the Child Health BC Hip Surveillance Program for Children with Cerebral Palsy E-Learning Module.
Jeanne Hughes Award for the best paper published in Pediatric Physical Therapy in 2016 as a result of work completed while in an educational program; Awarded February 2017.
Physiotherapy Association of BC Award of Excellence 2018

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