Guest guest Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Perhaps someone has more info. about this, but my impressions from Dr. Herzenberg's symposium were that Dr. Ponseti's recent success in treating atypical clubfoot still hasn't been disseminated to the doctors... Perhaps at the Nov. symposium in Iowa? It was hard for me to keep my mouth shut, but I didn't want to " step on any toes " so to speak, especially since I'm " only a parent " ... Dr. Herzenberg showed everyone the Sandals and said that mr. couldn't make it because of a family emergency, but he didn't say they were for children with atypical feet who tend to have difficulty staying in the markell shoes particularly in the beginning... All of the doctors who presented from different countries spoke about the 5% of cases that they couldn't treat successfully and had to do surgery on. They all described the " sausage feet " that we have all learned from parents on this site are the atypical clubfoot. There really wasn't any mention of the fact that Dr. Ponseti had figured out how to treat these feet as well... The dr. from Brazil did talk a bit about these feet saying that they were typically bilateral. So for the time being, those parents who may have children with atypical clubfoot will have to be especially diligent about their child's treatment until other Ponseti docs are brought up to speed. Kudos to the family who went to Dr. Ponseti after Dr. Herzenberg wasn't able to fix their child's feet. Anyway, thought this was curious... Best, Joanne W. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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