Blount's KAFO Question
keri blythe
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Collection
Title:
Blount's KAFO Question
Creator:
keri blythe
Date:
9/17/2002
Text:
Hello List,
We have a 1 1/2 year old boy with Blount's disease. All the literature I
have been able to locate indicates that the KAFO for treating this condition
should have a medial upright attached to the shoe, a thigh cuff with a
medial pad over the knee, and elastic pulled snugly around the lower leg to
provide corrective force as the child grows. We fabricated two orthoses in
this manner and sent him back for follow-up with his referring physician.
The doctor has requested that we fabricate a device with a lateral upright
and lateral corrective force provided by elastic at the thigh and ankle.
Has anyone else been treating Blount's with this type of device or something
similar? This seems very counter-intuitive to me. If you are familiar with
this course of treatment, is there any literature to indicate that it is
more or less successful than the traditional Blount's KAFO?
Thanks in advance for your help - I will post a summary of responses.
Keri Blythe
NCOPE Resident
O&P Clinical Technologies
Gainesville, Florida
We have a 1 1/2 year old boy with Blount's disease. All the literature I
have been able to locate indicates that the KAFO for treating this condition
should have a medial upright attached to the shoe, a thigh cuff with a
medial pad over the knee, and elastic pulled snugly around the lower leg to
provide corrective force as the child grows. We fabricated two orthoses in
this manner and sent him back for follow-up with his referring physician.
The doctor has requested that we fabricate a device with a lateral upright
and lateral corrective force provided by elastic at the thigh and ankle.
Has anyone else been treating Blount's with this type of device or something
similar? This seems very counter-intuitive to me. If you are familiar with
this course of treatment, is there any literature to indicate that it is
more or less successful than the traditional Blount's KAFO?
Thanks in advance for your help - I will post a summary of responses.
Keri Blythe
NCOPE Resident
O&P Clinical Technologies
Gainesville, Florida
Citation
keri blythe, “Blount's KAFO Question,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/219570.
