A Little Background:

My husband and I are the parents of three wonderful yet challenging boys. Weston is now five (one month from 6) Garrett 3 and Greyson now just one. Weston is our only child born with bilateral clubfeet. His case has been classified as moderate to severe. He is a patient of two great doctors in the “Legacy System”. He has been receiving treatment since he was 13 days old. .before coming to this clinic he has had many procedures including serial castings (Ponseti method), Dennis Brown Bar, Achilles tendon and ligament work, he has had his tibias cut, rotated and pined, and he has had several pairs of the ankle foot orthotics (AFO’s) and now he the Taylor Spatial Frame placement with some more Achilles tendon and ligament work. Weston had his right leg put in the frame October 13,2009 and removed in December 18, 2009. Now from what I understand my sons frame time was rather short and he was on the younger side for the frame placement. He is a big 5 years old; most think he is seven or eight. He was then placed in a cast full leg bent knee from Christmas too late February. We then went to short leg cast for two more weeks then to the AFO which he wears 24/7 with maybe 1-2 hour break daily. (Letting it air out is what we call it) We placed the left leg frame on January 18, 2010 and had it removed March 30 2010. Now, with this frame removal, he had more tendons work done and he had a temporary pin placed through the big toe with a short leg plaster cast. Now we had hardly any lag time between frames. We wanted to get the procedures & corrections done before Weston started the first grade. SO at one point we had a cast on one leg and frame on the other. For some children and parents this may be too much at once. It was a little trying at times but overall it wasn’t too bad. We all made it through in one piece.