Before and After

It is amazing what can be accomplished in 11 weeks!

This is James' foot at birth and then 11 weeks later, after the weekly casts and the tenatomy. I was a little worried about what it would look like. His foot was still "short" when he had the tenatomy (cutting of the achilles tendon) and I didn't know how much better it would look after the three weeks in the last cast. When I took off the cast I was pleasantly surprised.

It looks really good. You can still see a difference, but it is not nearly so great. The feet are almost the same length. His club foot is fatter and the arch is flatter. I'm told that they try and get the arch like that. Now it is on to the Foot Abduction Brace (FAB).