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"The real challenge of the Ponseti Method begins
when casting ends.
Children must wear a brace locking their feet in
place 23 hours a day.
After three months, the time required begins to
drop incrementally
until age 4 or 5 when, according to Dr. Ponseti, the
gene that causes club
feet is no longer active."
The Ponseti AFO goes by many common names such as:
- The Ponseti Brace
- The Mitchell Brace
- Ponseti AFO with abduction/rotation bar
- FAB or Foot Abduction Brace
- DBB or Denis Brown Bar - this name has incorrectly been
applied to the Ponsetti AFO - this is the type of bar and boot that
has been used prior to the development of the Ponsetti AFO. Baby shoes are
attached with a flat steel bar.
The Ponseti AFO was developed by Dr. Ignacio Ponseti and John
Mitchell. John Mitchell was working making anatomical models, plastic body
parts doctors and teachers could use in the classroom. Dr.
Ponseti, the pioneer of the non-surgical approach to clubfoot treatment known as
the Ponseti method, recruited John Mitchell to develop a Foot Abduction Brace to
prevent relapse.
The Ponseti AFO is designed to be more comfortable for the baby
making it much easier to accept then the previous DBB, parents are more able to
use it and the baby will sleep through the night.
The Ponseti AFO is available from MD
Orthopaedics. The European distributors for MD Orthopaedics is c-prodirect
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