Ignacio Ponseti and the Ponseti Method of congenital talipes equinovarus correction.

Club foot – or, more correctly, congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV) 1 – describes a specific foot deformity of midfoot cavus, forefoot adduction, hindfoot varus and equinus. The World Health Organisation has estimated that 100’000 children are born with CTEV, with 80% occurring in the developing world. 2 Ignacio Ponseti died on October 18 2009 aged 95. He was a pioneer in paediatric orthopaedics and the inventor of the Ponseti Method: a cheap, yet revolutionary, way of treating CTEV in babies which has now become the standard procedure worldwide. It has transformed millions of children’s lives.