Every year in the United States alone, it is estimated that as many as 8000 babies are born with idiopathic clubfoot, a foot deformity that affects 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 and Director of the International Center for Limb Lengthening where every Friday is Clubfoot Clinic and where almost every child is treated with a non-surgical technique called the Ponseti Method. Dr. Ponseti, the inventor of the Ponseti Method, died in October of 2009 at the age of 95. He remained active in his clinic at the University of Iowa up until the day of his death.
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