Stats on adults having foot pain after surgery as a child?

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Has anyone seen stats on what % of adults have foot pain after having

club foot surgery as a child?

Thanks!

Holly

Adopting Mia waiting in China

[Guest guest]

Holly,

These stats are hard to come by - the long term follow up from

surgeries done on infants/children to adulthood is VERY slim. Dr.

Dobbs in St. Louis has just completed such a study - he went to

great lengths to track down patients who had surgery a minimum of 25

years ago to find out how they are doing now. The results were not

good. I unfortunately don't have those statistics as they are not

published yet. He is hoping to have the study published within the

year. The best I can tell you is that there are a lot of adults out

there (as evidenced by some of our group members, as well as the Yahoo

group " TheFeetClub " ) who had surgeries to correct their clubfeet and

have a lot of foot pain now as adults (myself included). We also know

that there are many adults living pain free thanks to the Ponseti

method correction of their clubfeet. There was a long term study done

on a group of patients treated with Dr. Ponseti's method, age range of

the participants was 25-42. They compared the patients' (45 clubfoot

patients in the study) pain and function to that of ordinary people who

did not have clubfoot, same age range. Of the people who did not have

clubfoot, 85% said their feet were good to excellent. Of the clubfoot

patients, 78% said their feet were good to excellent. There was also a

correlation with those who did not rate their feet as good or excellent

among both groups that related the problems they had to sedentary

occupations and excessive weight gain. Hope this information is useful

to you!

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> Has anyone seen stats on what % of adults have foot pain after having

> club foot surgery as a child?

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> Thanks!

>

> Holly

> Adopting Mia waiting in China

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