Assessing Knowledge on Clubfoot Among Parents Having Children with Clubfoot Deformity

Conservative Treatment in Clubfoot Deformity

Treatment of the congenital clubfoot (CCF) starts its development in the early 20 century and is still continuing today. Surgical techniques provide functional and radiographic data, but the subsequent later data of poor function and recurrence of deformity gave grounds the overall therapeutic process to be reconsidered in the middle of the last century. There are two methods that are generally...

Perception about braces in parents of children with clubfoot.

OBJECTIVE To access the acceptability of Steenbeek brace by children undergoing clubfoot correction and their parents to ensure long-term compliance. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted at the Indus Hospital, Karachi from October 2013 to March 2014. A trained researcher interviewed the person primarily responsible for bracing the child using a pre-coded questionnaire. Modified Ort...

Differential distraction for relapsed clubfoot deformity in children.

PURPOSE To evaluate the long-term outcome of clubfoot correction following differential distraction using the Joshi external stabilisation system (JESS). METHODS 13 male and 9 female patients aged 1.5 to 5 years with 28 idiopathic clubfeet underwent differential distraction using JESS for relapsed deformity after posteromedial soft-tissue release. They were available for review after a mean o...

Follow-up of children with congenital clubfoot

Treatment of late recurring idiopathic clubfoot deformity in adults.

Late recurrence of idiopathic clubfoot deformity in adults after prior successful surgery in childhood remains a rarity and only case reports exist. No study has yet clarified the results of triple arthrodesis in such cases. Complete clinical and radiological review of 7 patients (7 feet) after a follow-up time of 43 months following triple arthrodesis was undertaken. The time interval between ...