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Article: Clubfoot can be corrected: New parents find hope in non-surgical approach that relies on plaster casts.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- December 19, 2006
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Byline: Jeremy Manier
Dec. 19--The moment of my son's birth in November was one of pure joy, and for a few minutes in the delivery room, I didn't even think about his left foot, where prenatal ultrasound had detected a condition that would shape our family's daily parlance.
It's such a coarse, ungainly word -- clubfoot. In my imagination it occupied a gothic space near Lord Byron, the Romantic poet whose clubfoot was a source of literary anguish. My wife and I were grateful that our son had nothing more serious, but we worried that the abnormality might be a bar to athletics or even the simple frivolity that every child needs.
Yet as we learned ...