Re: My Little Girl's Club Feet

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Sorry to hear about your heartache. First is sounds as if your Ponseti

Treatment was modified, since you mention there was soft casting and rigid

casting. The first thing is to take pictures of your childs feet and send

them via email to Dr. P. You need to make sure you childs feet is corrected

100%, since your doctor didn't follow the Ponseti Protocol to a " t " . If you

are putting under corrected feet into the shoes your daughter is going to be

in a lot of pain. If Dr. P says they are fully corrected we can give you

some excercises to do with her to make the transition smoother.

>

>Reply-To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>Subject: My Little Girl's Club Feet

>Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 01:09:50 -0000

>

>Hello everyone, my little girl was born with bilateral club feet.

>On the day she left the hospital we went to see Dr. Klingele at the

>Children's Orthopedic Center in Columbus Ohio, and after 6 weeks of

>soft casting and three weeks of rigid casting, and a tenotomy, we

>went to " Hangar " to get Dennis Brown Splints for her. Well, after

>the technician saw her and measured her we were told to come back

>the next day because they had to order the right size. We went back

>there and he basically handed the shoes and bar to us and said " Here

>you go. " After getting home we tried like hell to get these damn

>shoes on and it took us about 1 hour to finally get them to stay on,

>but she seems to really hate them! She has been crying herself

>exhausted ever since we placed them on her feet. We are trying to

>give her some tylenol every four hours but it doesn't seem to be

>working. Hell, I don't even know if I have these shoes on

>correctly. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you.

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Sorry to hear about your heartache. First is sounds as if your Ponseti

Treatment was modified, since you mention there was soft casting and rigid

casting. The first thing is to take pictures of your childs feet and send

them via email to Dr. P. You need to make sure you childs feet is corrected

100%, since your doctor didn't follow the Ponseti Protocol to a " t " . If you

are putting under corrected feet into the shoes your daughter is going to be

in a lot of pain. If Dr. P says they are fully corrected we can give you

some excercises to do with her to make the transition smoother.

>

>Reply-To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>Subject: My Little Girl's Club Feet

>Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 01:09:50 -0000

>

>Hello everyone, my little girl was born with bilateral club feet.

>On the day she left the hospital we went to see Dr. Klingele at the

>Children's Orthopedic Center in Columbus Ohio, and after 6 weeks of

>soft casting and three weeks of rigid casting, and a tenotomy, we

>went to " Hangar " to get Dennis Brown Splints for her. Well, after

>the technician saw her and measured her we were told to come back

>the next day because they had to order the right size. We went back

>there and he basically handed the shoes and bar to us and said " Here

>you go. " After getting home we tried like hell to get these damn

>shoes on and it took us about 1 hour to finally get them to stay on,

>but she seems to really hate them! She has been crying herself

>exhausted ever since we placed them on her feet. We are trying to

>give her some tylenol every four hours but it doesn't seem to be

>working. Hell, I don't even know if I have these shoes on

>correctly. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you.

>

>

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Hi,

That is how we were given the DBB also. Just handed it to us and

away we went. I found it easiest in the beginning to take the shoes

off of the bar and put them on her then put them back on the bar.

Some of the bars don't allow this though. I sit with her on my lap

facing out. I loosen the laces and strap way out then put her foot

in and hold the heal down by pressing on the top of her foot (towards

the back)with my thumb, while I thighten the strap as far as I can

then I do the laces, then the other foot. Then I go back and tighten

the strap one more hole tighter. I hope that you are not still

having problems and have figured out something by now but thought I

would share my experiance just incase. There have been some other

messages on this and you might want to check the history. Also here

are a couple of web sites with additional info.

http://www.ponseticlubfoot.freeservers.com/hints.html

http://www.clubfoot.co.za/practical_tips.htm

Tori 1/30/04 bilateral cf dbb 23/7