TITLE:
Treatment of Resistant Clubfoot with Soft Tissue Release and Alkhooly External Fixator
AUTHORS:
Ali Zein A. A. Al-Khooly, Mohamed Ali Ahmed Mohamed, Ebrahim El-Hawary Ali
KEYWORDS:
Clubfoot-External Fixator; Soft Tissue Release
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Orthopedics,
Vol.3 No.7,
November
28,
2013
ABSTRACT: After the
first research with this technique done by the first author, ten operations on the
foot and ankle were performed on five patients (two boys and three girls) suffering from severe
club foot deformity all with bilateral foot affection. Their ages ranged from
five to fourteen years. All of them were treated by soft tissue release, skin
flap (rotational flap), supplemented with Alkhooly external fixator. The follow
up period ranged from two to seven years. The
results according to Mittal (1987) [1] were excellent in eight feet (80%) and
good in two feet (20%).