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Hello everyone. First off, sorry if you read this in the other group. : )

My son was born on March 25, 2004 with bilateral clubfeet. He

only needed three castings to correct his feet, didn't need the tenotomy,

and has been in his DBB for about 7 weeks now. He actually was out of them

for about one week because he had developed a blister on one heel, so we had

them off until it healed well enough to put the shoes back on. After a week

and a half of them being back on, he has now developed a red mark on his

other heel, so the shoes will be off until that clears up and causes him no

pain, hopeully only a day or so. Thankfully, he didn't loose any of his

correction while his feet were out of the shoes, so hopefully he won't loose

any this time either. He was in the curved shoes up until today. The

doctor gave us a prescription today for the straight last shoes and we were

able to get them today. The doc said this should help prevent any further

blisters. Has anyone else noticed this to be true? His feet still have

good dorsiflexion (10-20 degrees that Dr. Ponsetti says they should have)

and the doc says they're still corrected the way they should be. The doctor

comes highly recommended and has been using the Ponsetti method for years to

correct clubfeet, so I do trust him. I think we might not be getting his

heel seated in there correctly. Does anyone have any advice on how to

better accomplish this? I've also heard about cutting holes in the backs of

the shoes, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that without destroying

the shoes or something. Are there instructions somewhere on how to do that,

maybe along with some pictures so we know it's being done correctly?

Our doctor also recommened the shoes, so we're in the process of

trying to get our insurance company to cover at least some of the cost for

them. The doctor is writing a letter to the insurance company stating that

the shoes would be better for our son to have and then will fax it

to our rep. She said she'll then take the letter and find out what the next

step is for us.