BACKGROUND In the first part of this study we proposed a new classification approach for spinal deformities (3-DEMO classification). To be valid, a classification needs to describe adequately the phenomenon considered (construct validity): a way to verify this issue is comparison with already existing classifications (concurrent and criterion validity). AIM To compare the 3-DEMO classificatio...

BACKGROUND 'Walk for Life' (WFL) is the sustainable clubfoot program in Bangladesh, where there are many challenges in implementing the Ponseti technique in a poor and highly populated country. The relapsing tendency of congenital clubfoot deformity means that initial results may well differ from those of the medium and longer term. Over 10000 children with16668 clubfeet have been treated by WF...

prevalence of the illness in India and described its main features. particularly muscle spasm; he found that 7 per cent of the population under review were affected. Acton (1922) studied the disease in the population of the town of Ravat (India) and found that about 6 per cent of the children showed signs of lathyrism. Vivanco and Jim#{233}nezDiaz ( 1 95 1 ) described similar findings in Spain....

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of early relapse after achieving good initial correction in children who were on clubfoot abduction brace. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, and included parents of children of either gender in the age range of 6 months to 3years with idiopathic clubfoot deformities who had undergone Ponseti...