RE: Attn: RE: Florida Doctors

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Too funny! I actually forgot about that post until just now...We are in

ville, and saw Mazur and then Leah Pike. I wouldn't recommend

either one! We now see Dr. Ponseti, and couldn't be happier! I know that

Marica is taking her daughter to a Ponseti certified doc in Orlando, and I

think that she is happy with him. We were just so afraid to get jerked

around again, that we decided to go straight to the source.

Thanks for the update!

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>Reply-To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>Subject: Attn: RE: Florida Doctors

>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:15:28 -0800 (PST)

>

>... Sorry it took me so long to respond to your comment about the

>doctors here in Florida. Something was wrong with my Yahoo account and it

>just got up and running again today. You were asking about the doctors that

>I took to see in Florida. I normally wouldn't bad-mouth doctors on a

>chat group like this, but since they all screwed up my kids feet and I now

>have to travel to Baltimore and see Dr. Herzenberg because of the lack of

>good orthopedic surgeons in this lovely state, I will share their names

>with you...(and anyone else who may be reading this!!!) We live in South

>Florida... so our first doctor was Theresa Rattey, located in Boynton

>Beach, who serial casted him for 2 months when he was little then said that

>he needed to have the surgery where they re-align the bones in his feet

>(forgot the name of it). She even scheduled it for us. I said " what about

>the brace? " She told us that his feet weren't getting corrected with the

>casts, so she wanted to just

> try surgery instead. Obviously that was a red flag and we left her

>practice. Then we went to Bret Baynham in Palm Beach Gardens. He was

>actually a very nice doctor, got 's feet straightened out with some

>more casts, did the tenotomy, casted again and he was in the DBB's.

>kept on getting out of them every night and I just knew that his feet

>weren't corrected. So I decided to take him to Dr. Romano in

>Plantation for another opinion. He is the only one out of the 3 doctors

>that is actually on Dr. Ponseti's list of trained doctors. The others just

>said they used the Ponseti method. Well ,when turned 2 I took him in

>for a check-up and Dr. Romano said his feet were relapsing and would

>need the ATT surgery when he turns 3. He said to leave his feet as they are

>now (turned in) and wait a year to do surgery. That was not an acceptable

>answer to me, so I did some research and booked a flight to Baltimore and

>saw the AMAZING Dr. Herzenberg. This is

> 's 4th ortho and finally the only one that is helping his feet. He

>has been in casts for 3 weeks, they come off next week. Dr. H said we have

>avoided doing any further surgery just by putting casts on for a month. I

>am just so happy that we found him and so sorry that I didn't listen to my

>gut and take him there sooner. Sorry for the long post, but I just wanted

>to let anyone else reading this know to listen to YOUR gut and if you

>aren't satisfied with your child's ortho, look elsewhere. It isn't worth

>wasting treatment time on your child's precious little feet with a doctor

>who isn't actually doing the REAL Ponseti method!!! So , who did

>you see in Florida?

> Tichauer

> 2/9/04 BLCF (Finally being fixed my a great doctor)

>

>

>

> Tichauer

>

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[Guest guest]

, In case I hadn't responded, we see a group of dr.s in Orlando, we

see Dr. Herrera-Soto, but there is also Dr. Price (who is on dr. Ponseti's

list) and Dr. Albright (who actually did his pediatric ortho fellowship in

Iowa City). Its a great group and they do follow the Ponseti method, at

least those 3 docs do. I wouldn't recommend any of the other docs in the

practice for clubfoot, but those three are great! Oh, their office number,

if you need it,

Marcia

Attn: RE: Florida Doctors

> >Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:15:28 -0800 (PST)

> >

> >... Sorry it took me so long to respond to your comment about the

> >doctors here in Florida. Something was wrong with my Yahoo account and it

> >just got up and running again today. You were asking about the doctors

that

> >I took to see in Florida. I normally wouldn't bad-mouth doctors on

a

> >chat group like this, but since they all screwed up my kids feet and I

now

> >have to travel to Baltimore and see Dr. Herzenberg because of the lack of

> >good orthopedic surgeons in this lovely state, I will share their names

> >with you...(and anyone else who may be reading this!!!) We live in South

> >Florida... so our first doctor was Theresa Rattey, located in Boynton

> >Beach, who serial casted him for 2 months when he was little then said

that

> >he needed to have the surgery where they re-align the bones in his feet

> >(forgot the name of it). She even scheduled it for us. I said " what about

> >the brace? " She told us that his feet weren't getting corrected with the

> >casts, so she wanted to just

> > try surgery instead. Obviously that was a red flag and we left her

> >practice. Then we went to Bret Baynham in Palm Beach Gardens. He was

> >actually a very nice doctor, got 's feet straightened out with some

> >more casts, did the tenotomy, casted again and he was in the DBB's.

> >kept on getting out of them every night and I just knew that his feet

> >weren't corrected. So I decided to take him to Dr. Romano in

> >Plantation for another opinion. He is the only one out of the 3 doctors

> >that is actually on Dr. Ponseti's list of trained doctors. The others

just

> >said they used the Ponseti method. Well ,when turned 2 I took him

in

> >for a check-up and Dr. Romano said his feet were relapsing and

would

> >need the ATT surgery when he turns 3. He said to leave his feet as they

are

> >now (turned in) and wait a year to do surgery. That was not an acceptable

> >answer to me, so I did some research and booked a flight to Baltimore and

> >saw the AMAZING Dr. Herzenberg. This is

> > 's 4th ortho and finally the only one that is helping his feet. He

> >has been in casts for 3 weeks, they come off next week. Dr. H said we

have

> >avoided doing any further surgery just by putting casts on for a month. I

> >am just so happy that we found him and so sorry that I didn't listen to

my

> >gut and take him there sooner. Sorry for the long post, but I just wanted

> >to let anyone else reading this know to listen to YOUR gut and if you

> >aren't satisfied with your child's ortho, look elsewhere. It isn't worth

> >wasting treatment time on your child's precious little feet with a doctor

> >who isn't actually doing the REAL Ponseti method!!! So , who did

> >you see in Florida?

> > Tichauer

> > 2/9/04 BLCF (Finally being fixed my a great doctor)

> >

> >

> >

> > Tichauer

> >

> >

> >---------------------------------

> >Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo!

> >Messenger with Voice.

> >

> >