Treatment of the congenital clubfoot (CCF) starts its development in the early 20 century and is still continuing today. Surgical techniques provide functional and radiographic data, but the subsequent later data of poor function and recurrence of deformity gave grounds the overall therapeutic process to be reconsidered in the middle of the last century. There are two methods that are generally...

Dynamic supination of the foot is a common residual deformity in children with clubfeet treated with the Ponseti method. Transfer of the anterior tibialis tendon (ATT) to the lateral cuneiform is an effective method for correcting this deformity when the cuneiform is ossified in children who are 3 to 5 years of age. We describe two cases of a previously unreported method of ATT transposition fo...

We studied 24 children (40 feet) to demonstrate that a physiotherapist-delivered Ponseti service is as successful as a medically-led programme in obtaining correction of an idiopathic congenital talipes equinovarus deformity. The median Pirani score at the start of treatment was 5.5 (mean 4.75; 2 to 6). A Pirani score of > or =5 predicted the need for tenotomy (p < 0.01). Of the 40 feet studied...

Following correction with the Ponseti method some idiopathic clubfeet still will relapse even after six years of age. A better understanding of the cause for these late relapses will greatly help in the management of this condition. We evaluated a consecutive case-series from 1948 through December 1984 including 209 patients (321 clubfeet). Patients were treated following the Ponseti method. In...

Treatment with the Ponseti method corrects congenital idiopathic clubfeet in the majority of patients. However, some feet do not respond to the standard treatment protocol. We describe the characteristics and treatment results of these complex idiopathic clubfeet. We identified 50 patients (75 clubfeet) from 762 consecutive patients treated at five institutions. Clinically, complex clubfeet wer...

284 feet in 182 children with clubfoot treated by Ponseti method in Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram during period of August 2011 to August 2013 were studied prospectively. Aim of the study was to evaluate the results and complications of Ponseti method of treatment and to assess the compliance of foot abduction orthosis by children and parents. The severity of initial club foot d...

Because men with pedophilia present, on average, lower IQ and neuropsychologicalperformance thannon-pedophilicmen(Cantor, Blanchard, Robichaud, & Christensen, 2005; Joyal, Black, & Dassylva, 2007) as well as structural anomalies of cerebral grey matter regions (Schiffer et al., 2007; Schiltz et al., 2007) or white matter tracts (Cantor et al., 2008; Cantor & Blanchard, 2012), a growing number o...