clubfoot

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Other forms: clubfeet

Clubfoot is a condition in which a foot is turned in and down from birth. Born with clubfoot, treatment for clubfoot, correct the clubfoot.

The medical name is talipes, and it is one of the commonest conditions babies are born with. Treated early by gentle casting over a few months, almost every case corrects completely, which was not true a generation ago. It is a condition rather than a description of a person.

Definitions of clubfoot

1nounclubfootA foot twisted out of shape from birth.C1
“The baby was born with a clubfoot, but a series of casts straightened it.”

clubfoot is a condition.

Where it comes from

Club plus foot, from the shape. The medical term talipes comes from Latin talus, an ankle, plus pes, a foot.

From club + foot.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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If the clubfoot deformity does not improve by the end of the casting phase, an Achilles tendon tenotomy can be performed.
Clubfoot
Some affected individuals are born with an inward- and downward-turning foot (a clubfoot).
Autosomal recessive multiple epiphyseal dysplasia
Achilles tenotomy is commonly used as part of the Ponseti Method of treating clubfoot.
Tenotomy
Scarpa's shoe was an 18th-century mechanical device developed to treat clubfoot.
Scarpa's shoe
Hope Walks, formerly CURE Clubfoot, is a Christian nonprofit organization based in York Springs, Pennsylvania, that treats infant clubfoot in developing countries around the world.
Hope Walks

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