Treatment of Clubfoot

Abstract

Ninety per cent of the cases of idiopathic clubfoot may be corrected by a slow soft- tissue stretching as advocated by Kite. This method utilizes a plaster of paris-wedging technic.

Treatment of resistant or recurrent clubfoot often requires open surgical procedures. The soft-tissue procedures, which include tendon release and transfer, should precede bone surgery.

For the recurrent, resistant or uncorrected clubfoot, triple arthrodesis offers the surest permanent correction.