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Health 24.com, November 2007 |
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A Journey of STEPS
In January 2003, Karen Moss gave birth to Alexander. He was born with bilateral clubfoot, a congenital disorder of which the cause is unknown. Clubfoot refers to the position of the foot, a sharp angle to the ankle like the head of a golf club. It causes the foot to turn inward and point downward. Karen knew very little about the condition at the time.
“My cousin had one clubfoot when I was a child and I remembered him wearing a calliper for some time and having operations. I was worried about the prospects for my baby boy having both feet clubbed.”
Early treatment
When Alex was eight days old, he had his first casting session done. New plaster casts were put on every week for eight weeks. “I had to pull on his toe and hold his knee straight for the orthopaedic surgeon to wind the bandages on and then he would pull his foot straighter while the plaster hardened,” says Karen.
However, the treatment had not worked enough to straighten his feet and at three months Alex faced corrective surgery.... read on
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Daily Iowan, September 2007 (Ponseti International Symposium) |
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 The healing touch for clubfoot
Alex Moss pounded forward in his Spiderman shoes, which flashed red light as his healthy, sturdy little legs churned furiously. As the 4-year-olds completed the Ponseti Clubfoot Races on Sept. 14, the cavernous event hall at Marriott Coralville Hotel echoed with the cheers of families. Later, the children queued for photographs around 93-year-old Ignacio Ponseti, the man responsible for reshaping their once twisted and crippled limbs.
The International Clubfoot Symposium, which began Sept.12 drew more than 40 families and 200 physicians from 44 different countries to the area. Experts discussed research about the defect - which affects 150,000 babies born worldwide each year - and considered ways to increase availability of treatments to Third World countries at the four-day event.
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Femina Magazine, November 2006 |
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 As older parents - I was 40 and my husband was 43 - we were thrilled when Alexander was born. Only one small cloud darkened the happy occasion. He had both feet turned inwards like little
golf clubs. It hadn't shown up on the ultrasound and the obstetrician was visibly taken aback when she delivered him. Yet the paediatrician and the nurses where unanimous that clubfoot is easy to fix.
That was not our experience initially. After 8 weeks of plaster casts applied by a local orthopedic surgeon who'd been recommended by an expert, we found ourselves faced with the idea of the surgeon slicing Alexander's new baby-pink skin to cut and reattach the tendons and ligaments and put pins in his tiny feet............read on
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