If you’ve listened to this show in the past or our sister show (Hip & Happening), you already know today’s guest: Valerie Parrish, the Director of Patient Advocacy and Engagement at the IHDI.

This episode was recorded right after our IHDI 2.0 symposium in New York, In this conversation:

• We talk about baby positioning and baby-wearing.

• We get into early detection and why we still miss hips — and how that might change with smarter imaging and motion tools.

• We discuss improving brace treatment

• We explain why kids are not just “small adults” how we are helping build pediatric shape libraries and patient-specific modeling

• We talk about surgical precision in theory vs reality: and where augmented reality may fit in the future.

• And we end with a big idea: “normal” is not universal. Which matters for screening, labeling, and deciding who needs an operation.