Very cool pictures w/Dr Ponseti +Ilizarov method etc.

January 16, 2005

Wow, . Thanks for sharing that website. I really enjoyed the

information it contained and the pictures. I wonder if that older woman

pictured had

spent her entire life sufffering from clubfoot when it was correctable...how

sad to think that so many people suffer from untreated clubfoot. How thankful

we should be to have access to the doctors and information that we do.

I really wonder why Oprah never responded to any of our emails.

Freeman

In a message dated 1/16/2005 5:20:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,

boothejennifer@... writes:

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January 16, 2005

I Just came across this very interesting website w/Dr Ponseti. I

have never seen it before and just though some of you would love to

see it. The link is:

I hope it works. There are many foreign pictures of older children

succesfully treated with the Ponseti method. Just very cool!

January 17, 2005

That was a really interesting site. I was pretty sure I understood

the idea behind the Ilizarov method, I had a friend who had the

whole leg contraption with pins and all, and it did look pretty

similar. But those pictures were really interesting. Especially the

older Indian girl. Her foot looked awful--it's amazing the

correction they achieved! Her calf still looked significantly

smaller, though. Do you think that's because her CF was untreated &

she was probably walking on her ankle, so her muscles didn't really

have a chance to strengthen? I'm just wondering, because everything

I've read says there's only an average 1 " diff in circum. between a

CF leg & non-CF leg. It concerns me because Ava is unilateral,

right. The other pics I've seen the difference isn't so pronounced,

but they've all been little kids, 3 or 4 or 5 yrs. old. Hers was the

first pic I've seen of an older person. Thanks!

, mommy of:

Guinevere, on, Ava 8/4/04 right CF DBB 23/7

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