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Okay im freakin out right about now....

I cant even believe that we almost had our sons foot casted like that!

With such a risk as rocker bottom! I'm shocked that any doctor would

take that risk. Oh my god Sammy! Did your old doctor inform you that

it could happen?? The doctor we were seeing first,told us that it may

happen ,but he said it as if it wasnt that big a deal. We liked our

first doctor allot,and dont get me wrong ...he got Zacks foot really

straight. The ONLY reason we switched doctors was because I got the

flavor he wasnt up to date. Im so sorry n has to go thru this.

Its just not fair. Im just sick to death of the thought of other

parents not knowing what could happen if they take that route. It

sounds really appealing,compared to having your babys heel cut on.

Melynda

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Just jumping in a little. Our first ped ortho warned us about rocker bottom

also but she was very cautious not to take 's feet too far too fast and

knew not to correct certain parts of the clubfoot before others. That was

why she could'nt take 's feet past a certain point (which was both feet

pointing straight down like a ballerina) and then told us surgery was

inevitable. I thank god that even though we did not stay with our origional

doctor and switched to the Ponseti Method, that we had been referred to such

a good pediatric orthopedic surgeon who never tried to do something that she

felt would have made 's feet possibly worse. She was very frank with me

on the phone one day and told me that the difference between her and Dr.

Ponseti is that Dr. Ponseti does not believe in the clubfoot surgery and she

does. That was very honest and I appreciated that, I don't think it makes

her a bad doctor, just not the right doctor for us. But I hear stories like

this one and I simply can not comprehend what is going thru some of these

doctors heads and why they continue with the coarse of treatments that they

do.

I agree, it seems as though we parents have had to " study " clubfoot in order

to figure out the right path of treatment for our little ones. I just wish

the non operative methods were used as the main source of treatment and then

surgery used if all else fails. A lot of parents could be spared so much

grief and confusion that way even if they knew next to nothing about

clubfoot. (Which was me in the beginning!)

Just a thought!

Holly and

**Sammy **

>Okay im freakin out right about now....

>I cant even believe that we almost had our sons foot casted like that!

>With such a risk as rocker bottom! I'm shocked that any doctor would

>take that risk. Oh my god Sammy! Did your old doctor inform you that

>it could happen?? The doctor we were seeing first,told us that it may

>happen ,but he said it as if it wasnt that big a deal. We liked our

>first doctor allot,and dont get me wrong ...he got Zacks foot really

>straight. The ONLY reason we switched doctors was because I got the

>flavor he wasnt up to date. Im so sorry n has to go thru this.

>Its just not fair. Im just sick to death of the thought of other

>parents not knowing what could happen if they take that route. It

>sounds really appealing,compared to having your babys heel cut on.

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> Melynda

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