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Halley-

My son has been at 55 degrees since August-our doctor prescribed it

and Dr P after emailing him, concurred. Our son is considered " loose

ligamented " and they both believe the lesser reduction will help

tighten up his ligaments. When he is free standing-his feet tend to

turn to 90 degrees-almost perfect second position if he was a

ballerina. It did scare me too to reduce his shoes but I trust my

doc and Dr P. I do watch his feet to see if they are regressing but

so far, no change. We can still rotate his feet to 70 degrees(or

further) with no problems!

HTH,

kathleen

mom to david bcf fab 12/7 8/28/04

>

> Hello,

>

> I took Keira for a check-up today with her family doctor. My

doctor's nurse

> saw her shoes and bar and asked if she had been born with a

clubfoot. She

> said that she was born with a clubfoot and so was her son, who is

now 16.

> She said that it has never bothered her and she's always been very

active.

> Her son is also very athletic and involved in sports and it

doesn't bother

> him at all except that they used to have to buy two different shoe

sizes.

> She also told me how the difference in her calf size is barely

discernable.

> I found it very reassuring. I wanted to post about it because I

know many

> people are curious to hear about older people and older kids/teens

born with

> clubfeet are doing.

>

> Just to switch topics, I have a question to throw out there. Both

Dr.

> Morcuende and Dr. Ponseti said, based on Keira's pics, that we

should reduce

> the degree of abduction to 50 degrees (as per Morcuende) and " no

more than

> 30 degrees " (as per Ponseti). I saw the post earlier about how it

is

> important to have the foot over corrected to seventy degrees to

maintain

> range of motion and also to allow for some natural regression of

foot back

> to neutral position.

> I know Dr. Ponseti knows what he is talking about however I

wondered about

> the impact of decreasing her degree of abduction as it relates to

those two

> issues.

> I have e-mailed him about this but haven't heard back yet.

> We'll probably just wait until we are in the s to change

the

> degrees. The impression kit was sent over a week ago so hopefully

should get

> here soon as I'm anxious to get Keira into the s.

>

> One last question for the users..do you have to take it

to the

> ortho/dr to have them set the degree of rotation or can you set

everything

> up on your own when you get the brace?

>

> Thanks and have a nice weekend!

>

> Halley

> Keira 04/12/05 Markell FAB 23 hrs/day

>

>

>

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