Re: Feet turning in (pigeon toed)

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Hi, Carole,

Good to hear from you again...I think we " talked " a looooong time

ago about relapse. Anyway, I have my 5 year old Evan whom we

started having fits about when he was almost 4. He also was/is

pigeon toed but it was only noticeable when he was running. When

sitting with feet hanging straight down over the edge of a chair his

feet were still perfect. We took him to see Dr. Mosca who agreed

with us that correction was still perfect but he took one look at

him running down the hall and said " Quit looking at his feet--look

at his knees " . When running his knees turned, causing the whole

lower part of his leg to twist in a bit when stepping forward. This

in turn, caused the feet to swing inward at the last part of his

stride. The diagnosis was femoral torsion which resolves in all

but .01% of cases by age 8.

We took him in again this June, one year later...same diagnosis.

And we do think that we are seeing small degrees of self correction

occurring now, much to our relief. We sent a video to Dr. P. who

was not able to detect this without seeing Evan, I guess. Anyway,

if you seek another opinion get them to check carefully for femoral

torsion. They do this on the exam table, face down knees bent to 90

degrees, then turn the whole thigh inward and then outward. If the

range of motion is too large there is femoral torsion.

Sorry this got so long....hope it helps!

Shelley and Evan (8-17-00)

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> Aloha all:)

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> I was reading this last post and It hits home for my son also.

He is 3

> 1/2 and wears his shoes (Markell w/red adjustable U shaped DBB

bar) when he

> sleeps. We just had our last ck up and Dr. also cked flex/ angle/

rotation, and

> how far he could point down and up with toes, and said all is

well and on

> track. But I too have a thing about his feet...they are turned

inward and he

> falls when he runs. The Dr. said this will correct in time, but it

bothers me, I

> don't know if I should raise a fuss, or give it time to correct

itself.

> Because we have been through the Ponseti method from birth, with

one relapse

> under our belt even though we had one time out on the shoes when

he was

> hospitalized with a bad flu that cost us 2 nights without his

shoes. I have a realtime

> clip of him walking if anyone wants to see it please feel free to

e-mail me

> and I will let you see the clip...anyhow I fear the loss of time,

if it does

> not correct...does that make sense? I was thinking about sending

the clip to

> Dr. Ponseti, like we did with his last problem...would love some

input on

> weather I should or not...

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> Thank you Carole Fujishima _cfhawaii50@o..._

(mailto:cfhawaii50@o...)

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