Kai's #2 (or #11 depending on how you look at it!) cast is on!

[Guest guest]

Everything went well and Dr Mosca had a great time telling his trainee about

Kai's foot and how you must over correct the cavus - " which is something you

absolutely would NOT do in an average cf " - and advising on the decision to use

knee casts instead of long casts " ONLY do this for a walking age child who has

most aspects of correction still present, never durring initial correction! "

Also, he was avid on having us show the trainee the /Ponseti brace and

telling about and what dedication and love goes into these shoes :-)

He also told us that, while Dr Ponseti missed the recent meeting (PONSA was it

?), which he has never done, that Dr Morcuende presented the paper on

atypical clubfoot! He said he was very excited to hear it .. like a little kid

" That's my patients! I have patients with this! " lol

Sam, the cast tech, also told us something that confirms something Dr Ponseti

told me last year ... that for a long time they rarely saw atypical clubfoot ...

maybe once a year or less ... and now they are seeing alot more of it for

reasons unknown.

All in all it was a great appt and a great opportunity to show one more emerging

doc that the Ponseti Method can work in even the most difficult of cases (YEAH!)

Kai will wear this cast for 2 weeks, then we will take it off and send photos to

Dr Mosca. We are, of course, back on the 3 month check up schedule so will be

going back in late April/early May.

Angel