How to treat congenital clubfoot in children

Congenital clubfoot is one of the most common congenital limb deformities in children. At present, it is widely recognized in the international medical community that the initial treatment of congenital clubfoot should be non-surgical, and that the neonatal period is the best time to treat congenital clubfoot. The non-surgical treatment of congenital clubfoot proposed by Ponseti of the University of Iowa in the United States and emerging from North America, known as the Ponseti method in academic circles, is becoming the most popular treatment of clubfoot in the world today. The Ponseti method is now internationally recognized as a non-surgical treatment for congenital clubfoot, and the development of this treatment has resulted in an encouraging success rate of more than 90%. After decades of long-term follow-up studies, it is found that the Ponseti method of treatment of clubfoot can make children get a strong, flexible and painless foot, completely avoiding the sequelae of recurrence, foot stiffness, pain and weakness brought by the surgical treatment.The Ponseti method is simple, practical and effective, and the operation tools of the method are simple and inexpensive, which is suitable for our country’s situation.