Guest guest Posted November 11, 2004 Report Share Posted November 11, 2004 Ok, thanks to everyone for your responses. That " AFOs Suck " thread was interesting (and I just love the title). And I think I mostly understood Dr. P's lecture. I get a little confused by all the " equinus and vargus and meta-whatsa-who-zits " after a while. But I think I see the significance of the 70 degree rotation. It seems to me like the AFO/DAFO group of braces places more emphasis on holding or bracing the foot & ankle muscles in one position, whereas the DBB is more about the 70 degrees external rotation & dorsiflexion. It almost seems like to some extent they accomplish two completely different things. I did notice that nowhere on the DAFO site did they recommend it for use on CF patients. I am getting frustrated because the bracing company STILL has not called me to make her appt-I keep calling & it's been over a week. Her foot still looks great, better every day in fact, but that's 1 week & it will still be 4-6 weeks after her fitting until I get the brace. The good part of that is it gave me all this time to sort out whether I want the DAFO or not. So today I'm going to call my doc (assuming he's not in Iowa right now) and talk to him about...(drumroll please)...getting a DBB instead! Yes, you can all breathe sighs of relief! :-) Seriously, thanks to everyone for your help. I think my husband thinks I'm nuts because I talk about you guys like you're my best friends... " Oh, I'll just post & see what everybody thinks " or " I'll ask everybody in my group " . Oh well! Thanks! mommy of: Guinevere, on, Ava 8/4/04 right CF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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