RE: girls more difficult to treat?

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Hi Liz,

Congrats on your grandbaby girl! I love the name Bren! Definitely be " on

your toes " as others have said.

For our story, checkout

www.geocities.com/joannewalton2003/clubfootstory.html

Needless to say, we're on our third (and last) doctor now...

My daughter's right clubfoot is very mild and I'm certain would've been one

of the 5% that do not need surgery if we would've stuck with the first

doctor who was still doing surgery 4 years ago. Most doctors who do the

surgery say that 95% of clubfoot children need it but 5% will not after the

non-manipulative casting they do while they wait for the baby to be old

enough for surgery (8 months?)...

Just my 2 cents...

Best, Joanne W. mom to Zoe, 3-25-01, right clubfoot

Fairfax VA (Dr. Herzenberg)

>

>My beautiful granddaughter arrived 3 weeks early on March 30! As

the

>ultrsound showed she does have pretty severe B/L clubfoot. After a

lot

>of searching and researching we finally found a doctor in Knoxville

>that trained with Dr. Ponsetti! It was quite by serendipity that

we

>found him though. My granddaughter and her mom and dad were

referred

>to Dr. Madigan at Knoxville Orthopedic Center, one of the 2

pediatric

>orthopedists there. We all went to the first appointment planning

on

>just a consult in the beginning. In his office he started examining

>Bren's feet in great detail and educating us on what was going on

>physiologically with them. Then he started explaining about the

>Ponsetti Methhod! We just kind of dropped our jaws and stared at

him

>for a minute - then in unison our whole little family group

said 'You

>use the Ponsetti Method??!!!' He seemed equally shocked that we

were

>so educated about Ponsetti. He gave us a little more history on

>Dr.Ponsetti himself and explained that yes, he had trained,

certified,

>etc., with him. We told him when we did our search for someone who

>used this method we never saw his name on the list of registered

>doctors at IU and his team nurse practioner said she was going to

>find out why he was not listed because he should certainly be

there!

>Bren got her first set of casts that day - she was the only one

not to

>thrilled about being there. She will probably have 9-12 castings

and

>have the tendons lengthend along the way, the braces, etc. Dr.

Madigan

>said clubfoot was very rare in girls and for some reason equally

hard

>to correct in girls. By the end of the first appointment we were

all

>very impressed with him and his team. They were all terrific and

>really good with baby Bren. The only down part of this so far has

been

>that Bren was very jaundiced and of course that meant checking

blood

>several times. That meant several trips to the Children's Hospital

so

>someone very, very experienced could draw her blood. Yesterday she

got

>her second casting and same as with the first one she was grouchy

for

>about 24 hrs and then got over it. We are crossing our fingers that

>everything will go according to schedule but whether it does or not

>I'm sure we're going to but a lot of mileage on this board!

>

>Thanks everyone!

>

>Liz mim2g&b

>

> (and mother of johnna71