Children

Like me, you probably have children getting ready to go back to school. You’ve taken your back-to-school shopping list, and purchased pencils, notepads, folders, etc. But, have you given much thought to your children’s shoes. Children’s feet grow a lot as they get...

In a previous post, I discussed a deformity called clubfoot and how to correct it. The basic treatment involves the stretching, casting, and bracing of the affected foot using the Ponseti method in which I have been trained. Unfortunately, over a third of corrected...

Unfortunately, some babies arrive in the world with foot deformities. One of the more common ones is called a clubfoot. This type of deformity affects approximately one birth out of 1,000 and in about 50% of cases both feet are affected (bilateral clubfoot). A...