RE: ATTT/detached tendon

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Kassia,

She walks on the front part of her foot, not totally on tip-toes. However,

when I remind her not to walk that way she walks fine. If we're out shopping

and she's excited she walks extremely well, heel down first. She has about

10° dorsiflexion on her right foot....I'm not sure if she should be able to

pull her foot up that far. She can bring it to 0° + (or 90° depending on how

you look at it)

Glad to know Jake is out of the woods. When they're this little you just

want to keep them from anything remotely scary even if it's for their own

good.

Dan

Re: ATTT/detached tendon

Dan-

Does Emma walk on tip-toes? How loose is her achilles tendon? Jake did

that prior to his 2nd surgery, mainly because his achilles was so tight. It

was kind of interesting actually; we'd had an appt in June at which I asked

Dr. Dietz if he would do another achilles tenotomy on Jake, and he said at

that time probably not, that his achilles seemed to be flexible enough. By

Jake's pre-op appointment in October, though, Dr. Dietz said he would

definitely need another tenotomy and he was surprised how tight it had

become.

Jake is walking really well now. When he's tired, though, he tends to

turn his foot outwards....but he still walks nice & flat. A couple weeks

ago I took him to Stride Rite to get new shoes, and his left foot is now

only a half size smaller than his right!! How wonderful not to have to buy

two different shoe sizes!! (his feet were a size and a half apart before

surgery) In any case he only walks on tip toes when he *wants to* now, not

because he *has to.* And his foot looks just great.

btw my husband calls his feet skis. *grin*

Kassia

Jake 3/22/01 (Lt clubfoot, ATTT #2 October 2005)

and 11/22/02