Background: Clubfoot is a debilitating pathology and source of abnormal gait in children. Treatment with the Ponseti method treatment used management congenital clubfoot children under 9 years old. This study aims to identify proportion supported by evaluate their effectiveness. Materials Method: A multicenter retrospective descriptive for six (06) months from June 1st November 30th, 2019 conce...

Introducción. Durante la aplicación del método Ponseti (MP), el niño puede mostrar incomodidad, tensión muscular o movimientos corporales que hacen procedimiento una experiencia desagradable y estresante para pacientes, familiares personal de salud. Objetivos. Describir los desenlaces técnicas no farmacológicas (TNF) favorecer estado emocional durante atención estándar pacientes con pie equino ...

Randomized controlled clinical trial.The main purpose of the present study was to comparatively analyze the effectiveness, advantages, and the complications of using semirigid synthetic softcast with respect to plaster of Paris (POP) during the treatment of clubfoot deformity.The study group consisted of 196 babies (249 feet). A total of 133 feet treated by an orthopedic referral center using s...

I t has been known for over twenty years that the feeding of sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) seeds to rats causes skeletal deformities (osteolathyrism) (1). Recently, Ponseti and co-workers (2) have revived interest in the experimental disease of osteolathyrism (or odoratism as it is sometimes called). The condition is characterised by severe and dramatic changes induced in the mesenchymal tissue...

The content covers congenital, developmental and degenerative conditions, trauma, growth and infection related disorders, and clinically relevant basic scientific research. Congenital abnormalities affecting the limbs remains a great challenge to orthopaedic surgeons, but development in this field is swinging from amputation and prosthetic fitting to bone and soft tissue reconstruction due to b...

e have assessed the reliability of four classification systems for club foot. Four observers evaluated nine children (18 feet) at different stages in the first six months of life, a total of 180 examinations. Each observer independently assessed all feet according to the classification systems described by Catterall, Diméglio et al, Harrold and Walker, and Ponseti and Smoley. The variation betw...