Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 Hi everyone, Ridley is cruising, holding fingers and walking. He has a left club foot that even when he walks he holds it at 70 deg. Do other walking toddlers do this? His knee is out to the side.....infact you'd think he was still in his brace the way his foot is positioned and how he places his foot. He's dragging his foot often rather than lifting it and moving it through. I know his muscles may be weaker on his left side but does this often happen. He's just gone to nightime /naps 3 wks ago so maybe I'm being premature. He's 14mtns old. Am a bit worried. Any thoughts? Melitsa Little miracles happen everyday. _________________________________________________________________ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 Melitsa, The turning out of their leg and foot when they are little is a normal part of having been casted out at 70 degrees and having worn the FAB/DBB. That will slowly go away over the next few months or years. I think that by the time that was 14 months and had been out of 24/7 FAB/DBB wear since 5.5 months much of that had already gone away. The overcorrection allows for the clubfoot condition (which is still trying to pull the feet back into a clubfoot position) to instead go from overcorrected back into a normal alignment. You can see it a bit in 's 3 month old pictures versus his 14 month old walking picture at our story below. and (3-17-99) http://www.vh.org/pediatric/patient/orthopaedics/clubfeet/egbert.html > Hi everyone, > Ridley is cruising, holding fingers and walking. He has a left club foot > that even when he walks he holds it at 70 deg. Do other walking toddlers do > this? His knee is out to the side.....infact you'd think he was still in his > brace the way his foot is positioned and how he places his foot. He's > dragging his foot often rather than lifting it and moving it through. I know > his muscles may be weaker on his left side but does this often happen. > He's just gone to nightime /naps 3 wks ago so maybe I'm being premature. > He's 14mtns old. > Am a bit worried. Any thoughts? > > Melitsa > Little miracles happen everyday. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! > http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 Melitsa, The turning out of their leg and foot when they are little is a normal part of having been casted out at 70 degrees and having worn the FAB/DBB. That will slowly go away over the next few months or years. I think that by the time that was 14 months and had been out of 24/7 FAB/DBB wear since 5.5 months much of that had already gone away. The overcorrection allows for the clubfoot condition (which is still trying to pull the feet back into a clubfoot position) to instead go from overcorrected back into a normal alignment. You can see it a bit in 's 3 month old pictures versus his 14 month old walking picture at our story below. and (3-17-99) http://www.vh.org/pediatric/patient/orthopaedics/clubfeet/egbert.html > Hi everyone, > Ridley is cruising, holding fingers and walking. He has a left club foot > that even when he walks he holds it at 70 deg. Do other walking toddlers do > this? His knee is out to the side.....infact you'd think he was still in his > brace the way his foot is positioned and how he places his foot. He's > dragging his foot often rather than lifting it and moving it through. I know > his muscles may be weaker on his left side but does this often happen. > He's just gone to nightime /naps 3 wks ago so maybe I'm being premature. > He's 14mtns old. > Am a bit worried. Any thoughts? > > Melitsa > Little miracles happen everyday. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! > http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 Melitsa, The turning out of their leg and foot when they are little is a normal part of having been casted out at 70 degrees and having worn the FAB/DBB. That will slowly go away over the next few months or years. I think that by the time that was 14 months and had been out of 24/7 FAB/DBB wear since 5.5 months much of that had already gone away. The overcorrection allows for the clubfoot condition (which is still trying to pull the feet back into a clubfoot position) to instead go from overcorrected back into a normal alignment. You can see it a bit in 's 3 month old pictures versus his 14 month old walking picture at our story below. and (3-17-99) http://www.vh.org/pediatric/patient/orthopaedics/clubfeet/egbert.html > Hi everyone, > Ridley is cruising, holding fingers and walking. He has a left club foot > that even when he walks he holds it at 70 deg. Do other walking toddlers do > this? His knee is out to the side.....infact you'd think he was still in his > brace the way his foot is positioned and how he places his foot. He's > dragging his foot often rather than lifting it and moving it through. I know > his muscles may be weaker on his left side but does this often happen. > He's just gone to nightime /naps 3 wks ago so maybe I'm being premature. > He's 14mtns old. > Am a bit worried. Any thoughts? > > Melitsa > Little miracles happen everyday. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! > http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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