A STUDY ON CLUB FOOT BETWEEN PHYSIOTHERAPY AND ORTHOSIS | ||
| AL-TAQANI | ||
| Article 1, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 7-15 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Huda. J. Ali; Ashraf Ali Al-zubaidi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A club foot is a congenital malformation of one or both feet, occurrence is about (1-2) cases per 1000 births, with the number of male being twice that of female, In 50% of cases club foot is bilateral. For this reason the researches carried out at Medical Rehabilitation Department of prosthesis and orthosis on (45) child with club foot within age group (0-24) month, from 1/10/2009 till 30/12/2009 by random sample, The researches designed a check list for the following prognosis after treatment .They divided the sample into three group, (15) case treated with exercises only, (15) case used splint only and (15) used exercises and splint treatment. After that data analysis used percentage and chi-square, the result was the significant with the group used (exercises and splint) more improvement than the other group .The researchers recommend ideally treatment should begin immediately after birth and correction he club foot deformity by splint and exercise. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| club foot; splint; physiotherapy | ||
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