Guest guest Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 My son is 7 months old. He was born with a severe case of club foot. We did the serial casting starting when he was 2 days old. We did that for approximately 12 weeks. At that time he had his first tendon lengthening surgery. After surgery, he was casted for the 3 week period and then we were told he needed the orthopedic shoes. We tried the shoes for 12 more weeks. They kept falling off and they weren't doing what they were supposed to do, they weren't correcting his foot. So the doctor said we needed to do another tendon lengthening surgery (this one they lengthened the tendon that elongated the big toe). After surgery he was casted for 2 weeks. After those casts came off, the foot still wasn't coming up (to a right angle), so we are back to casting weekly. Our most recent appointment was the Monday before the 4th of July and the doctor said that the casting isn't giving the results that he had hoped for, so we may have to do a third tendon lengthening surgery....this time on the peroneus longus tendon. I'm starting to wonder how many more of these surgeries we are going to have to go through. I've tried to find other information on the web, but there is so much that is not known about this deformity. Anyone have any reassuring input/advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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