BACKGROUND Clubfoot treatment commonly fails and often results in impaired quality of life. An understanding of the soft-tissue abnormalities associated with both treatment-responsive and treatment-resistant clubfoot is important to improving the diagnosis of clubfoot, the prognosis for patients, and treatment. METHODS Twenty patients with clubfoot treated with the Ponseti method were recruit...

Idiopathic Congenital Talipes Equinovarus, or clubfoot, is a common developmental disorder of the foot, affecting at least 2 in every 1000 live births in Scotland. The defect is characterised by a twisting of the foot and loss of calf muscle. Diagnosis is usually made on postnatal examination and treatment; usually a series of foot manipulations, takes place within the first year. Treatment can...

Clubfoot affects 1 in 1000 live births, although little is known about its genetic or developmental basis. We recently identified a missense mutation in the PITX1 bicoid homeodomain transcription factor in a family with a spectrum of lower extremity abnormalities, including clubfoot. Because the E130K mutation reduced PITX1 activity, we hypothesized that PITX1 haploinsufficiency could also caus...

BACKGROUND 'Walk for Life' (WFL) is the sustainable clubfoot program in Bangladesh, where there are many challenges in implementing the Ponseti technique in a poor and highly populated country. The relapsing tendency of congenital clubfoot deformity means that initial results may well differ from those of the medium and longer term. Over 10000 children with16668 clubfeet have been treated by WF...

Background: Congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV) or clubfoot is a common pediatric congenital foot deformity that occurs 1 in 1,000 live births. Clubfoot is characterized by four types of foot deformities: hindfoot equinus; midfoot cavus; forefoot adductus; and hindfoot varus. A structured assessment method for clubfoot is essential for quantifying the initial severity of clubfoot deformity an...

objective hyperextension of the big toe is described here as a simple and reliable sign to predict undercorrection of cavus deformity of clubfoot in the ponseti method. materials & methods this retrospective study was conducted on children with clubfoot who were treated successfully by ponseti method in the king fahad hospital, saudi arabia, and emam reza hospital, mashad, iran, from 2003 throu...

Background and purpose - Idiopathic clubfoot can be bilateral or unilateral; however, most studies of gait have assessed clubfoot cases as one uniform group. The contralateral foot in children with unilateral clubfoot has shown deviations in pedobarographic measurements, but it is seldom included in studies of gait. We evaluated gait in children with idiopathic clubfoot, concentrating on foot i...

OBJECTIVE Congenital clubfoot affects 1 per 1000 live births per year in Romania. To date, no epidemiological studies have been conducted in this country to assess risk factors associated with the deformity. The aim of this study was to evaluate specific environmental and socio-demographic factors that may increase the risk of an infant to be born with clubfoot. PATIENTS AND METHODS A descrip...

Idiopathic Congenital Talipes Equinovarus, or clubfoot, is a common developmental disorder of the foot, affecting at least 2 in every 1000 live births in Scotland. The defect is characterised by a twisting of the foot and loss of calf muscle. Diagnosis is usually made on postnatal examination and treatment; usually a series of foot manipulations, takes place within the first year. Treatment can...

Idiopathic Congenital Talipes Equinovarus, or clubfoot, is a common developmental disorder of the foot, affecting at least 2 in every 1000 live births in Scotland. The defect is characterised by a twisting of the foot and loss of calf muscle. Diagnosis is usually made on postnatal examination and treatment; usually a series of foot manipulations, takes place within the first year. Treatment can...