Re: Re: blisters

[Guest guest]

That does seem a little odd. Are you sure that foot doesn't have a mild case of

cf also? Both my boys, they had cf on both feet so dealing with just one foot

is not my territory exactly. Some times from what I read I think it's easier

having both feet affected. OH I just thought of one thing though ..... was the

non-cf turned out to 70 degrees? If so that might have hurt, I think non-cf

only need to be at the 45.

Then again there are just some kids who react poorly to the Markell shoes for

whatever reason....my 2nd son tried them at first and couldn't tolerate them. He

was treated by Dr. Ponseti, his feet were corrected good but the shoes ate him

up; that's when we switched to the and haven't had a problem since.

s.

It's strange to me that the heel with the worst damage

is the non club foot. I'm going to push for him to be recasted again

tomorrow when we see the dr. Thanks again,

[Guest guest]

, thanks for the advice. We see the dr tomorrow and I am going

to ask that he be recasted. The most severe of the blisters were on his

non club foot. Because the injury to his club foot was less severe, we

had asked if he would cast that foot while the other one heals, however

the dr thought it was more important for the skin to heal. The soars

went beyond blisters. Still he has a deep groove on his heal from the

blister popping, a well as broken skin around the heel. Logan's foot

is starting to turn very slightly, so hopefully we do not lose too much

ground. We were at 70 degrees on the DBB, but my son did not tolerate

that well, so we went to 45 and were working our was to 70. After

reading it seems that maybe we were not casted at 70. Thanks Again,

.

Re: blisters

Hi, and welcome to the group!

The stretching may help but it's often the case that being out of the

shoes for even a short time can result in relapses - do you notice

Logan's feet seem to be turning back in already? Is his foot abducted

to 70 degrees of outward rotation? Do you feel like his feet were

fully corrected? Often the cause of blisters and sores on the feet

are not just ill fitting shoes, but feet that are not fully corrected.

It is possible that he may not relapse in these few days but your

doctor should definitely look at his foot before just getting you the

new shoes and sending you on your way. If he sees that the foot is

indeed relapsing he should do another cast to regain correction prior

to putting Logan back in the shoes.

If you are looking to get a second opinion, I don't know of any

Ponseti doctors in Connecticut, but there are several in New York and

Dr. Herzenberg in Baltimore is one of the best. Hope this helps and

if you have any other questions feel free to ask!

Thanks,

Jenna (7/4/01) & Sammy (9/25/04, RCF, Dobbs' Brace, 16hrs/day)

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> Hello, I am new to the group and looking for advice. My son Logan

> was born 8/11/05. Despite several level 2 US, we did not know about

> the unilateral club foot until he was born. We had not heard of

> club foot and were led to believe it was no big deal, just a few

> casts and all would be well. We went to the ortho recomended by our

> ped and felt he was quite knowlegeable. He told us about the serial

> casting and the posibility of his heel cord being cut. We did about

> 4 weeks of casting, then the heel cord was cut. After that cast

> came off we were fitted for shoes. Logan screamed for about 24

> hours with the FAB, then was generally unhappy for several days. We

> had trouble figuring out if his heel was down and back and he was

> developing a blister. We went to see the orthotist twice to get

> lessons on the shoes. She saw that he was developing a blister. I

> asked for the shoes with the open back that I had found on the

> Markell site. She ordered these, however by this time there were

> several blisters on both feet-seemingly from the padding added by

> the orthotist and stitching on the back of the shoe. One foot was

> so severe that we had to stop with the shoes and he has a

> prescription to help heel the blisters. While with the orthotist,

> she could not figure out why 2 pairs of the same size shoe looked so

> different. I contacted Markell and discovered that the shoes we

> were given were quite out dated, and had we been given the shoe

> currently available we could have avoided this. So Logan has been

> out of the shoes since Thurs and we see the ortho on Tues. I was

> just told to do some stretching with his foot. I am worried that we

> are losing ground and he has suffered unnecissarily. We are in CT

> and there are no dr's on the Ponseti list. Is there anyone on in

> this group that has had a similar experience or could recomend a dr

> in CT?

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