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Changing children’s lives for World Clubfoot Day

Research

On World Clubfoot Day join our researchers and surgeons for an exhibition and demonstrations at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC). This Friday 3 June you can help us make a difference for children born with clubfoot worldwide. Around 200,000 children each year are born with clubfoot, with around 80% of these in low and middle-income countries.

Around 200,000 children each year are born with clubfoot, with around 80% of these in low and middle-income countries.

If left untreated, clubfoot becomes a painful and severely disabling deformity, where the feet point down and inwards and with the soles of the feet backwards; however, the simple Ponseti treatment is successful in up to 95% of cases, especially if this is initiated early.

NDORMS Professor Chris Lavy has worked with children with clubfoot for the last 30 years, both in the UK and Africa. He currently leads a project that is strengthening training and delivery capacity for clubfoot treatment in 15 sub-Saharan countries - the Africa Clubfoot Training Project.

Read more (Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science (NDORMS) website)

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