AFO until when?

[Guest guest]

I so agree Kori, I mean the old, typical AFO was a HUGE NO NO for club feet and

still is! Yet here they're calling 's shoe an AFO and it's causing major

confusion. What was wrong with calling it a FAB? That's what the damn thing is

anyway and if insurance will pay for a Markell FAB why not a FAB?

I do have concerns this duel-terminology is going to bite some people in the

butt as doctors prescribe AFO's (the real ones) and stuff or get confused

because most of the doctors don't know jack about FAB's anyway as we've proven

here a million times (even some of the so-called Ponseti doctors dont' know jack

about the system!) ...then some parents are going to say, " Hey my kid was

treated with an AFO and did just fine " meaning they used the FAB but

someone else will hear that and say well then my doctor prescribing an AFO is

right when it's not the FAB it's the blasted AFO that doesn't work!

Oiy!

I just see us stepping one step foward and two steps back with mixing up

the terms here. Not only do we risk more babies getting treated with the

non-successful AFO with disasterous results, it seems to me

eventually risks a loss of business as people who know AFO's don't work avoid

using his wrongly-named AFO that is NOT an AFO it's a friggen FAB!!! My

wore the REAL AFO, the one that phuked up his feet and my other son Everett wore

the Ponseti FAB (um, afo???) that they're now calling an AFO with

perfect results ......And anyone new here reading this is going to be more

confused than ever! Having gone the true afo route though with those

disasterous results I mentioned this really irks me they're calling this

wonderful club foot brace a friggen afo after we've striven for years to

convince folks not to use afo's on their cf kids.

Speaking of cf kids, I have two I need to go put to bed, have a good weekend!

s.

----- We're going to have a problem with this

terminology now... The FAB AFO is NOT the standard AFO.

Kori