HELP ...... feet aren't ready for boots and bars!

[Guest guest]

Don't know if anyone out there can help our son has been having the ponsetti

treatment

since 1 week old and after 12 sets of casts they decided they weren't really

getting anymore

improvement and that they would go ahead with a tenotomy. (The treatment is

really new at

our hospital so they are also learning as things progress.)

He had his tenotomy 2 1/2 weeks ago and today I expected him to go into boots

and bars.

However we got to Physio to find out that they can't get his foot to 90 degrees

and the

abduction isn't enough so he's gone back in plaster. They also couldn't give me

any

guarantees that this would help improve the position of his foot further so he

could go into

boots and bars in the near future.

I'm now feeling rather worried that they are going to start looking at surgical

correction

methods and wondered if there was anyone out there who had a similar problem and

what

happened. I feel that it would really help me to know that there might be light

at the end of

the tunnel without having to go down a surgical route and being informed helps

me feel

more ready to challenge the doctors and their suggestions.

[Guest guest]

Don't know if anyone out there can help our son has been having the ponsetti

treatment

since 1 week old and after 12 sets of casts they decided they weren't really

getting anymore

improvement and that they would go ahead with a tenotomy. (The treatment is

really new at

our hospital so they are also learning as things progress.)

He had his tenotomy 2 1/2 weeks ago and today I expected him to go into boots

and bars.

However we got to Physio to find out that they can't get his foot to 90 degrees

and the

abduction isn't enough so he's gone back in plaster. They also couldn't give me

any

guarantees that this would help improve the position of his foot further so he

could go into

boots and bars in the near future.

I'm now feeling rather worried that they are going to start looking at surgical

correction

methods and wondered if there was anyone out there who had a similar problem and

what

happened. I feel that it would really help me to know that there might be light

at the end of

the tunnel without having to go down a surgical route and being informed helps

me feel

more ready to challenge the doctors and their suggestions.