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Hi my name is and I have a son with Bi-lateral club feet.

His name is Tyler. He is now 18 months and we have been through 3

surgeries, countless castings, braces and dennis brown shoes with

bar. His doc says if he is not walking this month he is thinking of

doing another surgery. I looked on the internet and found a place

here that helps kids with special needs and found that they came to

the house and now has started physical therepy. In my searches on

the internet I also found Shriner's hospital. I have gotten him an

appt. hoping to get a second opinion. This last pair of shoes his

doc put him in knowing that his heel did not fit into the bottom of

the shoe. His doc even took xrays and seen that his heel was not

fitting into the shoe and he said to just let it go for a month and

hope that the shoes with the bar would help. I didn't think this

was right. Tyler has not wore the shoes in the past couple of weeks

cause they do not fit right. I am hoping that not too much damage

will have been done. He goes to the Shriner's hospital the 27th of

this month. I just don't want to go back to his regular orthopedic

doc cause I don't want him to do surgery on Tyler. He is an

pediatric orthopedic surgeon so I think that his first thought is

surgery and I am hoping maybe correction can be obtained in another

way. I was just wondering if anyone else has had probs with docs

like this? I also thought it would be good to know that we are not

alone in going through what we have and will go through.

thanks