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We provide an entire teaching and training models for the Ponseti method of Club Foot Treatment. Miniature plaster casts used for a nonsurgical treatment for infantsborn.The majority of clubfeet can be corrected in infancy in about six to eight weeks with proper gentle manipulations and a series of plaster casts.

Spanish Clubfoot: Ponseti Management [Poster] Now Available

Much thanks to Dr. Pablo Andrés-Cano for a new Spanish translation of our popular Clubfoot: Ponseti Management poster.

NOW AVAILABLE: New Hindi translation of Clubfoot: Ponseti Management! Click the link above to view or download the PDF.

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I am running 20.5 miles on World Clubfoot Day to support MiracleFeet's vision of a world in which all children born with clubfoot receive treatment, enabling them to live fully productive, active and healthy lives. Our daughter was born with bilateral clubfoot and I have personally experienced the miracle of non-surgical treatment. She is now fully corrected and walks, runs, and plays sports normally like any other child.  We were lucky, but know there are many others that are less fortunate. ABOUT CLUBFOOT: Clubfoot affects one out of every 800 children worldwide, making it one of the most common birth defects in the world. In developing countries, children living with untreated clubfoot face incredible hurdles their whole lives. Along with stigma and discrimination, they are often left alone and hidden away because the family is ashamed. Because walking is so difficult, they are among the least likely to enjoy the benefits of education and health care. Even worse, children with clubfoot are subject to higher risks of neglect, poverty, physical, and sexual abuse. ABOUT MIRACLEFEET: MiracleFeet provides organizational, technical, and financial support to over 150 clinics throughout the world in order to provide treatment to children born with clubfoot. The treatment costs only $250 per child and is free or extremely low-cost for the families who receive it. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP: Walk or run on World Clubfoot Day!  Choose a local race or simply walk out the door and create your own virtual event. 

Here is the link to my fundraising page: https://www.crowdrise.com/world-clubfoot-day

After a six-hour drive, we arrived at Satara, a smaller city in the state of Maharashtra.  It offered a welcome relief of the sweltering humidity closer to the coast, and a fresh perspective of the region. We met up with a Mrs. Mayura, who runs the miraclefeet-supported clinic there, and her husband for another day of home visits. The day started wonderfully, as we met young Kunal and his family.  Kunal was just rising from a nap as we began talking to his parents and grandparents. His charisma was obvious from the start. After fully waking up, we offered Kunal a chocolate bar that he gladly snatched from Rijo’s (MiracleFeet Program Coordinator) hand and offered a full-face grin in return.

Kunal’s story was a fascinating one. His mother is in her young twenties and has neglected clubfoot. Some surgeries were attempted when she was a girl, but they all failed. Sadly, the family didn’t prioritize the travel time and expense to treatment over “household duties.” Kunal’s mother was afraid her child with clubfoot would suffer the same fate. It wasn’t until she saw the change in Kunal’s foot after casting that the whole family could rest assured knowing that Kunal’s life would be different.