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Please help docs! is rickets curable without surgery or leg braces?
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Rickets: Rickets is a disorder of Vitamin D deficiency, that softens the bones. Vitamin D replacement is the cure. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000344.htm
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