Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 1

Incidence of Congenital Club Foot in and around Tumkur

1Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Agalkote, Tumkur, Karnataka

2Asst Professor, Dept. of Orthopaedics, Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Agalkote, Tumkur, Karnataka

3Asst. Prof., Dept. of Anatomy, Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Agalkote, Tumkur, Karnataka

4Professor, Dept. of OBG, Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Agalkote, Tumkur, Karnataka

*Corresponding author: N M Suresh, Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Agalakote BH Road, Tumkur-572107, Karnataka, India. Email: drnmsuresh@gmail.com

Online published on 19 January, 2015.

Abstract

Congenital club foot is found in approximately 1 per 1000 live births & has even higher prevalence in still births. Males are twice as likely to be affected as females. Incidence of bilaterality is as high as 4050%. 37 children with clubfoot were examined, diagnosed & treated by Ponseti method at Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Tumkur. This study aims at valuating the effectiveness of correction of clubfoot by Ponseti method.

Keywords

Congenital Talipus Equinovarus, CTEV, Rocker Bottom Foot, Rocker Bottom Deformity, Foot Deformity, Clubfeet, Ponseti Method, Clubfoot Surgery