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From: Karen Standefer

Here’s Dr. Redden’s diagrams and explanations for the different classifications of club feet (pretty much universally acknowledged).  http://www.nanric.com/Howtotreatclubfeet.asp

 

 

Thank you, Karen, for this excellent link.  This 2003 paper is the first

one I have seen on the Internet that incorporates all of the research findings

that I knew had been achieved as of 1998, makes all the correct

distinctions (slow developing club feet vs. sudden-onset contracted

tendons), gives all the right cautions (trying to "stretch the tendon"

can lead to disaster), as well as repeating the Grade I-IV taxonomy

that is so necessary to normalize discussion of this issue.

 

Plus, I am very glad to say, it contains lots of new information, new

precision of description (like the mechanics of how the hoof distorts),

and new detail on exactly how to treat what at what age, that I had

never heard of or read before.  I particularly liked it that attention has moved

up the leg to the muscle in the forearm (which is what is at the other

end of the deep flexor after all) and it looks like they might actually be

zeroing in on the primary cause.  I am so happy to see that true

progress is being made!!

 

I tried to find something that I thought was wrong.  I tried really hard.

I'm so good at that...there must be something that was wrong that I

could bitch about.

 

I couldn't find anything wrong.  This article nailed it!  It is now my gold

standard.

 

Now if he had just given his citations...:-)

 

Linda Marins