Links to Global Relief Projects
Helping Children with Clubfoot

• CBM -  Each year, more than  200,000 disabled people receive help and hope through CBM's ministry.  The used orhotics we collect are shipped by CBM to their workers in Uganda and Papua New Guinea.  You can also sponsor a child's teatment.
• The Cambodia Trust runs 3 rehabilitation clinics in Cambodia, providing free artificial limbs, braces, wheelchairs, physiotherapy and counselling. As well as treating landmine and polio victims, our patients include those with cerebral palsy, clubfoot, and many other disabilities.
• Uganda Society for Disabled Children  - A development agency committed to improving the quality of life for children and young people with disabilities in Uganda. 
• Healing Hands for Haiti
• Heal the Nations
• The Ruth Paz Foundation - helps children from Honduras suffering from orthopaedic problems, heart conditions, congenital birth defects and burns by sending them to the U.S. for medical treatment that is not normally available to poverty stricken people.
• Social Assistance Programs for Vietnam   - Orthopedic Surgery Program, which is also know as "A Chance to Walk!". This program provides free corrective surgery to poor physically disabled children in Vietnam.
• Disabled Children's Relief Fund is a non-profit organization that provides children with assistance to obtain wheelchairs, orthopedic braces, walkers, lifts, hearing aids, eyeglasses, medical equipment, physical therapy, and surgery.  Their main focus is on helping children throughout the U.S. that do not have adequate health insurance.

Discussion Boards:

• Yahoo Clubfoot Canada Group - a great way to connect with other Canadians and realize that you aren't alone in this experience.
• Yahoo Clubfoot Groups - join this international board it offers a good support network for parents.
• Yahoo Foot Discussion Board for Adults with foot pain ~ the other boards do have some discussion about adults but the focus tends to be infants and children.
• Ponseti Method Yahoo Group discussing non-surgical treatment.
• Yahoo Clubfoot Adoption Group - This is a group for families who either have adopted or are interested in adopting a child with club foot.

Web Sites:

• Clubfoot Photo Gallery  
• www.clubfeet.net - UK
• TIPS Web Site - Australia
• Clubfoot.co.uk
• Foot Care Experts

• Treatment of Congenital Clubfoot Ignacio Ponseti, M.D. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
• To locate a Doctor qualified in the Ponseti method:  Check out this listing
• Ponseti International Association
• Orthoseek.com
• Shriners
• PubMed- search abstracts of medical articles using key words clubfoot, amniotic band syndrome.  

SOCKS:

• TheraSocks - offers SmartKnit socks for AFO and KAFO users of all ages.
• Knitrite offers SmartKnit AFO socks
• Contour MD - SmartKnit AFO socks

SHOES:

• mixmatchshoes.com - this online store sells shoes of different sizes
• MBT's (Masai Barefoot Technology) are very expensive shoes that have a rocker sole - we bought the hiking boots (for the ankle support) for Evan and have been amazed at the improvement in his gait!
• Nordstrom -  you can buy a pair of shoes in two different sizes.
• Answer2 Orthopaedic shoes that accommodate AFO's and other orthotics are available from the Orthotics Department at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children or have your orthotist order them from SPS (They don't sell directly to the public).

OTHER:

• Looking after your child's AFO Factsheet