Falling down and flat feet update: ander

April 13, 2006

Hi well we had a bit of a sad visit with the Consultant. We discussed

the fact that seems to fall down at the drop of a hat and

has been complaining of back and knee pain. In fact the last few days

he's been walking straight legged with his right leg.

Anyway Al had an X-ray and it turned out that he may have Perthes so

we have to go back in 6 months for a further X-Ray and to see what is

happening. It may be a red herring apparently but it was clear to me

that one hip was quite different to the other one. I now feel

dreadful that I wasn't more insistent 6 months ago. Al is also going

to be fitted with supports to ensure his knee, ankle alignment is as

it should be. I'm not daft though, it was clear to me that our

Consultant thinks Al has Perthes.

It is probably very unlikely this will be the case but is anyone else

a parent or carer of a child with c.f. and perthes - ideally following

Ponseti method please? It would be good to know what effect if any

the brace has on the hip.

Re. the flat feet - well apparently these are just as back as a

clubfoot and our Consultant has seen evidence that the arch has been

over stretched. We didn't discuss reducing the abduction but like the

rest of you reading this I now feel torn between the devil and the

deep blue sea. Namely if you reduce the angle to 40 or 50 degrees say

does this mean that the incidence of relapse is higher? Which is the

more difficult to treat - flat foot or clubfoot. Whoever said this

was simple should be shot in my humble opinion, and frankly I'm sick

of people glibly saying of that simple to treat isn't it. {thanks for

listening, moan over }

Mum to the very gorgeous, cheeky monkey

d.o.b 10Dec03 Bilateral c.f.

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