AFO vs DBB

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Dose anyone use AFO's instead of the DBB? What is the difference?

Why is one better than the other? We may be switching to the braces

from cast at the end of the week and at the last appointment my

doctor said that we would be going into AFO's. I was wondering if it

is worth the fight to use the DBB instead of if they were similar.

Thanks.

and 1/30/04 in 5th set of cast

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>Dose anyone use AFO's instead of the DBB? What is the difference?

>Why is one better than the other? We may be switching to the braces

>from cast at the end of the week and at the last appointment my

>doctor said that we would be going into AFO's. I was wondering if it

>is worth the fight to use the DBB instead of if they were similar.

>Thanks.

> and 1/30/04 in 5th set of cast

Our doctor is planning on using both AFOs and the DBB simultaneously. We

just saw him today. After 7 castings, he did the tenotomy 4 weeks ago. He

is going to wait 2 more weeks, then take the casts off and put Leah in AFOs

and DBB. The DBB will be 23/7 for 3 months, then dropping to nights, while

the AFOs will be pretty much full time the way we understand it. He said

today the AFOs/DBB will be until she is at least 3. We've been very pleased

with the results so far. It was amazing to watch Leah's feet straighten out

each week.

We had an interesting discussion with the AFO man today. Instead of

requiring special shoes for the DBB, like Markell shoes etc, he says just

about any shoe with a good sole will work. He'll show us how to adapt the

shoes to work with the bar. Has anybody else heard of this, or tried it? He

says he's had excellent results using this method. We're wondering if the

AFOs make a difference, since they will be holding the heel in position.

Rob, , Leah (12/18/03, bil clubfoot) Graham

Great Bend, KS

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We use the afo's with the dbb. He wears the afos all the time and the dbb

for 12 hours at night. I think the afos are a lot easier than the dbb,

because they are just like shoes. He wears the dbb over the afos at night

and he has had a full correction and has held it for three months. But I

would not use the afos alone, but insist on at least having both, with the

dbb at night.

marilee with sean patrick bilateral cf 6months

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>Reply-To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>Subject: AFO vs DBB

>Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:44:25 -0000

>

>Dose anyone use AFO's instead of the DBB? What is the difference?

>Why is one better than the other? We may be switching to the braces

>from cast at the end of the week and at the last appointment my

>doctor said that we would be going into AFO's. I was wondering if it

>is worth the fight to use the DBB instead of if they were similar.

>Thanks.

> and 1/30/04 in 5th set of cast

>

>

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[Guest guest]

> Dose anyone use AFO's instead of the DBB? What is the difference?

> Why is one better than the other? We may be switching to the

braces

> from cast at the end of the week and at the last appointment my

> doctor said that we would be going into AFO's. I was wondering if

it

> is worth the fight to use the DBB instead of if they were similar.

> Thanks.

> and 1/30/04 in 5th set of cast

Thanks to those who responded to me about the AFO Vs DBB. Our

appointment was rescheduled to tomorrow so I am waiting to see how

her feet look. I am definitely going to get the DBB and if he is

uncomfortable with that I will see what he thinks about combining the

AFO's and the DBB. I don't know if I feel that her feet are over

corrected enough. How can you tell?

Thanks,

and bilateral club feet 1/30/04