Re: Shoes to wear after using the DBB on daytime

[Guest guest]

Morten,

I am not sure what your doctor is referring to? Was it an AFO? If

so, they do not hold correction and are not needed. If your son has

been wearing the DBB for 23 hours/day for 3 months it is time for

him to go down to 16-18 hours/day. He does not need to wear anything

special in his 6-8 hours out of the brace. Our dr. was prescribing 23

hours/day until Zoe walked, so I wrote to dr. P and here is what he

said about brace wear.

Quote

May 28, 2004

We have observed that after three months of full time brace wear,

night and naptime for a total of 16-18 hours are sufficient to

prevent a relapse. Once the child is walking about 12-14 hours is

adequate. I see no reason to have the child wear the brace 23 hours

a day until she is crawling. Straight last shoes are usually more

comfortable and are adequate to maintain the correction. Reverse

last shoes are not necessary.

I.V. Ponseti, M.D.

Unquote

Hope this helps.

Louisa

6-27-99

Zoe 2-22-04 RCF FAB 18/7

> Hello,

>

> After confronting our doctor with the information in the Ponseti

folder he decided to take of the DBB on daytime and just keep it on

16 hours/day. Our kid has been wearing it now for about 3 months so

this will do the rest of his body good.

>

> We were told that after using the bar he needs to wear special

shoes on daytime when he is not wearing the bar. This to stop the

foot from going back to the cluboot status.

> We are wondering what kind of a shoe this is and if anyone has a

picture of it. Is this just a " normal " shoe?

>

>

> Thankx for all your help

>

> Yours

>

> Morten Petterson

[Guest guest]

Morten,

Collin wears a reverse last boot on his right clubfoot and a

straight last boot on his left non clubfoot. I'm not sure if I

still has his x-mas photo of him sitting in a sleigh on our photo

page or not, but I know he was wearing a pair of them in the photo.

Our website is http://www.geociteis.com/chele323232 it would be on

the photo's tab and the top left photo. I did do some cleaning up

on the website and I'm not sure if I deleted that photo or not. We

just moved and I'm planning to update the website this Fall once I

get our scanner hooked up so I started to get rid of things. The

shoes just look like normal little boots. Collin does not have a

problem with them at all. I think you can goto the Markell website

to look for photos too most likely. Collin has white now but he has

had a tan and brown in the past (I liked them better but didn't have

a choice this time) It is hard to get the insurance company to pay

for them but in the long run after many battles and tears we did.

Michele

Collin