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Article: Non-Surgical Clubfoot Treatments Bring High Level of Success.
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- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- November 18, 2008
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Two non-surgical treatments most commonly used to correct the condition known as clubfoot have similarly high levels of success, according to a new study published in the November 2008 issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (http://www.jbjs.org/). While both treatment strategies use different approaches, each brings positive outcomes for most children (see also Clubfoot).
Clubfoot (http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00255) is a birth defect that occurs in approximately one in every 1,000 births, with boys slightly outnumbering girls. The exact cause is not known, but the condition does seem to run in families.
When a baby has clubfoot, ...