Club Foot Reconstructive Surgery

I assume that by "bent," toes you mean that they are contracted. Toes become contracted due to an imbalance between the extensor and flexor muscles to the toe, which could occur for a number of reasons. But it may be that the "stubbing" of the toes is due to an incompletely corrected and persistent equinus of the foot. It would be rather presumptuous of me, or anyone simply reading your post and not having the ability to examine your son, to meaningfully comment on precisely why he is having the problems you report and what might be done for them. That's way beyond the capability of this or any forum.

 

My son is 14 and is rehabilitating after a reconstructive surgery for club foot. He had the surgeries during infancy, but needed another surgery to try to eliminate pain he was having.

The pediatric orthopedist that we have been seeing since he was 1 week old also did the latest reconstructive surgery. He told us that many times after the reconstructive surgery, the toes will droop, so he consults with a orthopedic foot specialist and has the foot specialist perform a tenectomy on the toes during the reconstructive surgery.

This is what they did for my son. The foot specialist cut each of the tendons in the bottom of the toes...the ones that pull them downward. Both the foot specialist and the pediatric orthopedist treated this as a really simple procedure with no real complications.

You should ask your doctor about whether this may help your son. I think this is the only thing about the reconstructive surgery that helped my son. He still has tremendous pain, even more so than before the surgery.

We are in Houston, and would be happy to give you the name of our doctor if you like.

 

I'm 15, and I had reconstructive surgeries when I was a baby. In total I've had 5 surgeries now. I don't have that kind of problem with those toes, but my big toe on my right foot crosses over my other two now, which is pretty painful. My doctor just said that they would try and fix that in my next surgery, but for now, I just have a cushion thingy for between my toes, you could probably get your son one for in his shoe.

 

I'm 40 years old & was born with a club foot. I'm currently on disability but I want to return to my job. I'm a Lineman for a power distribution co-op. I'm hoping for some kind of surgery to get me back to work.

 

I was not born with clubfoot, got it at around 3 months of age, am 52years old. I had my first surgery 30 years ago, when then transfered tendons and put pins in my ankle. my first 20yrs werent bad but last 10 strugling ones. I recently met with a ankle surgeon and is recomending reconstructive surgery - which is scheduled June 14/12 and am very nervous - few times have decided to call and cancel and then I think what if its going to make it better? Any advise please. Email me at a.mita@yahoo.ca please.
Thanks

 

Hi,

My feet were normal when I was born. I had lower strength in my feet as I grew older, say when i was 6 yrs old, I had difficulty at drill classes and then it was observed i walked a bit on my outer side of the feet, so i was taken to AIIMs hospital, Delhi, and the doctors said I have CTEV. the doctor operated on my feet, put it in casts for 2 months, and when I was out i was wearing calliper shoes. This was in 1988. there was no proper information, i kept wearing normal shoes, especially used ones by my brother. As I have grown older I have found increasing difficulty. In 2007 I started wearing sandals with a bit of lateral wedge, so my feet became straight and I could walk. But I couldnt do many activities like walking on rocky surface or water. Finally, in 2009 I found these AFO which are for club feet deformity patients. Due to my feet weakness, I used to sprain my right foot and fall on my left knee, this caused a clean fracture of the patella in 2009. I do feel some weakness in my left knee still. So wonder what treatment can help my cause?

I am 34 now and have been wearing these corrective footwear and then normal shoes. What I have noticed is I get corns at the bottom and bullion near my toe, all created due to pressure of the corrective footwear. All these problems are in my right foot. left is better than right. My right feet also hurts very badly after walking for 2 hrs or so. I have heard acupuncture can help. I am from India, leaving in bangalore. I am not sure if surgery at my age will help.

Can you help?

Thanks.