WE WENT TO DR. LEWIS Re: Post from new member about Dr. -

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We started our treatment with Dr. . It was afer 15 casts that

we sought treatment elsewhere. My son is a difficult case but I

would urge you to seek treatment elsewhere. We went to Dr.

because he was the only pediatric ortho docotor on my insurance. I

wish we had researched more and found a doctor on the Ponseti list.

We now travel to land to see Dr. Herzenberg. I feel as though my

son's feet may have worsened under the care of Dr. and that we

wasted so much time seeing so little progress. 15 casts!!! Many of

them slipping off only a day after they were applied! We saw a

noticable difference in how the casts were applied and saw amazing

progress after making the switch. I am not one to bad mouth anyone

but I feel as though Dr. is NOT practicing the method correctly

and had I stayed with him my son would have needed surgery. There

are very qualified doctors in NYC on the Ponseti list but we chose to

go to Dr. Herzenberg because my son was 5 1/2 months old already and

from what I had read Dr. H was an expert at correcting bad treatment.

Are you on Long Island? Please call me if you want to talk about

this more .

Tommy Lee 4/23/04 .

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> My son was born with his right foot clubbed. Dr. of Winthrop

> University Hospital started the Ponseti method a day after his

birth

> and we will be doing the 5th cast this week. He said we will need

> between 8 and 14 castings. Soes anyone have any experience with

Dr.

> or have you heard of him before? I usually research all my

> doctors before I go to them and this club foot thing was unexpected

> so I didn't get the chance to reasearch, just stuck with Dr.

> who was the one who saw my son in the hospital after his birth.

> Also, do you know if only one foot is clubbed, does the child wear

> that two-show mechanism with the bar in between, or is there a

single

> shoe with splints.... Thank you!