Making A Difference: Caring For Clubfoot at the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
Every year in the United States alone, it is estimated
that 4000 to 8000 babies are born with idiopathic clubfoot, a foot deformity
that effects otherwise healthy babies. For decades the long-standing
medical solution has been surgery. But there is a better way.
Dr. John Herzenberg is head of pediatric orthopedics at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore where every Friday is Clubfoot Clinic and where almost every child is treated with a non-surgical technique called the Ponseti Method.
See what pregnancyandbaby.com is saying about Clubfoot treatment
Read an article about clubfoot treatment:
Ponseti Method Revolutionizes Clubfoot Treatment
By Bradley M. Lamm, DPM, and John E. Herzenberg, MD
(BioMechanics Magazine 2005;
12(10):47�58.)
