Just curious

[Guest guest]

and/or Beth,

I caught a post earlier regarding the administrator at the Tampa Shriner's

Hospital...Dr. Armstrong. Did I understand correctly that he is

fairly new in Tampa...and comes from Salt Lake City? Was he part of the

move towards the Ponseti method in SLC?

I could quite possibly have misunderstood some, or all, of the post. The

reason I'm asking is that we just received our appointment card for

's follow-up visit with Dr. Grogan at the Tampa Shriner's

Hospital. Our past experience with the clubfoot and brace issue has not

been a good one, and we were considering cancelling his appointment, as we

have found another doctor closer who is willing to follow up as Dr. Ponseti

has directed. Personally, I would like to see Dr. Grogan just to 'prove'

that the Ponseti method does work (without an attitude <G>), but my husband

feels like it would be a waste of time, considering the history. But if the

administrator there is pro-Ponseti, it may be worth it to other children in

the long run.

In Him,

Kim

[Guest guest]

Kim and Beth,

Beth, you are correct, Dr. Armstrong is the correct name.

Kim, Dr. Armstrong has recently become an administrator with the

National Shriners Headquarters which is located about 10 miles away

from the Tampa Shriners Hospital at

International Shrine Headquarters

2900 Rocky Point Dr.

Tampa, FL 33607-1460

http://www.shrinershq.org/shc/tampa/tampamap.html

Also he is has not used the Ponseti method, but he spoke about how to

do the surgical methods at the AAOS Convention durring the " Clubfoot

Controversies " instructional course that I attended. Dr. Ponseti was

also there and the speaker before Dr. Armstrong was a Dr. Jay

Cummings from Nemuors in ville, Fla. who had spoken about non-

surgical methods including Dr. Ponseti's.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nosurgery4clubfoot/message/6140

After the talks, I got to speak to Dr. Armstrong and we had a good

conversation about non-surgical treatment methods. I encouraged him

to try to help spread the non-surgical approaches throughout the

Shriners system. He also mentioned that he had transferred from the

Intermountain Shriners in SLC within the past few months. Until

takling to Dr. Santoro, I did not realize that Dr. Santoro had gone

to work at the SLC Shriners about the same time that Dr. Armstrong

would have been there. Dr. Santoro said that they knew each other,

but I didn't ask him if they had discussed the Ponseti method before

Dr. Armstrong left for Tampa. I think that Dr. Armstrong had also

been an administrator in SLC and has not recently been treating

children himself.

I also did not get the impression from his talk that Dr. Cummings

from Nemours in ville used the Ponseti method himself, just

that he had been assigned to speak on non-surgical treatment

methods. He presented what he had learned about the Kite/Lovell,

Ponseti, Bensahel and Dimeglio non-surgical methods. You can read

the text of both doctors handouts in the files section of this site

under reference information.

and (3-17-99)

> and/or Beth,

>

> I caught a post earlier regarding the administrator at the Tampa

Shriner's

> Hospital...Dr. Armstrong. Did I understand correctly that he

is

> fairly new in Tampa...and comes from Salt Lake City? Was he part

of the

> move towards the Ponseti method in SLC?

>

> I could quite possibly have misunderstood some, or all, of the

post. The

> reason I'm asking is that we just received our appointment card for

> 's follow-up visit with Dr. Grogan at the Tampa Shriner's

> Hospital. Our past experience with the clubfoot and brace issue

has not

> been a good one, and we were considering cancelling his

appointment, as we

> have found another doctor closer who is willing to follow up as Dr.

Ponseti

> has directed. Personally, I would like to see Dr. Grogan just

to 'prove'

> that the Ponseti method does work (without an attitude <G>), but my

husband

> feels like it would be a waste of time, considering the history.

But if the

> administrator there is pro-Ponseti, it may be worth it to other

children in

> the long run.

>

> In Him,

> Kim

[Guest guest]

Hi Kim,

I think it is so wonderfull how your little Christpher is doing.

Remember you have been a big part in his feet doing so well, with out

the faithfullness of the parents and the determination to advocate for

your child the outcome would not be so positive.

I think you should go to your Shriner visit for the educational

value. Go for that and don't have any expectations from anyone just be

a good witness (I know you can do this) I also think it would not be a

bad idea for folks to write to Dr. Armstorng as he is the new Director

of Medical Affairs for all the Shriners. I know you need to do what is

best for your family, let me know how things go.

Your friend~~The Cast Lady

-- In nosurgery4clubfoot@y..., Kim Freed <dkfreed4@j...> wrote:

> and/or Beth,

>

> I caught a post earlier regarding the administrator at the Tampa

Shriner's

> Hospital...Dr. Armstrong. Did I understand correctly that he

is

> fairly new in Tampa...and comes from Salt Lake City? Was he part of

the

> move towards the Ponseti method in SLC?

>

> I could quite possibly have misunderstood some, or all, of the post.

The

> reason I'm asking is that we just received our appointment card for

> 's follow-up visit with Dr. Grogan at the Tampa Shriner's

> Hospital. Our past experience with the clubfoot and brace issue has

not

> been a good one, and we were considering cancelling his appointment,

as we

> have found another doctor closer who is willing to follow up as Dr.

Ponseti

> has directed. Personally, I would like to see Dr. Grogan just to

'prove'

> that the Ponseti method does work (without an attitude <G>), but my

husband

> feels like it would be a waste of time, considering the history.

But if the

> administrator there is pro-Ponseti, it may be worth it to other

children in

> the long run.

>

> In Him,

> Kim