RE: Dr. Mubarak - California- Urgent

[Guest guest]

Hello Heidi,

My name is Charity Balliger and I live in Orange County, I would be glad to

share with you my experience. You can email me off line and I will give you

my phone number or you can give me yours! I look forward to talking with

you.

Charity and Trenton (8-24-00)

Dr. Mubarak - California- Urgent

Dear All,

Kindly advise if anyone has been treated his child with Dr.

Mubarak as he is away from the place i will be staying. My child is

Unilateral right Clubfoot.

If not Kindly advise if there are other doctors near Orange County

Kindly advise

Regards,

Heidi

[Guest guest]

Hi Heidi-

My son was orginally treated (casting and tenonmy) by Dr. Mubarak in

San Diego in April of 2002. There is a lady on this board named

whose grandson Andrez is currently being treated by him now. If you would

like to talk further you can email me your phone number to

hwray98@... and I can give you a call. I'm in Temecula (just north

of San Diego0 now. Dr. Mubarak is great with the casting and

tenonomy, but then he deviates from the Ponseti protocol when it comes to

the bracing. He doesn't rotate out the feet as much and ask the parents to

keep the child in the brace for 23hr for a year which is not necessary. With

all that said you can still get corrected by him and then just follow the

Ponseti Protocol of bracing 23hrs for 3 months and then down to 16 hours.

>

>Reply-To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>Subject: Dr. Mubarak - California- Urgent

>Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 11:39:59 -0000

>

>Dear All,

>

>Kindly advise if anyone has been treated his child with Dr.

>Mubarak as he is away from the place i will be staying. My child is

>Unilateral right Clubfoot.

>

>If not Kindly advise if there are other doctors near Orange County

>

>Kindly advise

>

>Regards,

>Heidi

>

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[Guest guest]

Hi Heidi,

My grandson was born 2-13-04 with biltateral clubfoot. He is being

treated by Dr. Mubarak. So far everything is going well. He was

casted at 6 weeks old and had 6 castings, then a tenotomy and a final

cast which he wore for 3 weeks. He has very small feet and did not

do well in the Markell shoes and developed a bad blister after only

being in the shoes for 1 week. We left him out of the shoes for 15

days and he slightly relapsed. He is not back in a cast for the

slight correction he lost while out of his shoes. He will wear this

for 3 weeks and then back in his Markell shoes. Hopefully this time

his feet can handle the shoes better. We are thinking about gonig

with the sandals but they are quite expensive. The only

concern I have about Dr. Mubarak is that he really doesn't seem to

take this that seriously. I really don't think my grandson should

have been allowed to go without shoes or casting for 15 days. I've

learned from this board that my grandson should have been put in a

cast so he wouldn't have lost any correction while his blister was

healing. He now knows that we have sent pictures to Dr. Ponseti and

that we are in contact with him so maybe he will treat my grandson

more closely. He does seem to deviate from Ponseti's protocols

regarding the length of time a child needs to wear the DBB 23/7. He

told my daughter Andrez needs to wear the DBB for 23hrs a day until

he is able to walk -- that would be about 8 months or more!! Since he

is close to us and he did a great job with the castings (well at

least the cast techinicans) we will continue to see him but we will

stick to Dr. Ponseti's recommendation about the DBB of 23/7 for 3

months straight. Good luck and email me if you have an specific

questions. Do you see him Thursday mornings?? My daughter see's a

few of the same mothers with children with clubfoot on Thursday

mornings.

- In nosurgery4clubfoot , " rita221068 "

wrote:

> Dear All,

>

> Kindly advise if anyone has been treated his child with Dr.

> Mubarak as he is away from the place i will be staying. My child is

> Unilateral right Clubfoot.

>

> If not Kindly advise if there are other doctors near Orange County

>

> Kindly advise

>

> Regards,

> Heidi