The efficiency of the Ponseti method in relapsing forms of congenital clubfoot

Author(s):  
Khushnud Khusainovich Rustamov ◽  
Dilmurod Ruzimetovich Ruzibaev ◽  
Otaboy Zokirovich Niyozmetov ◽  
Rasuldzhon Kalandarovich Rakhimov ◽  
Timur Bulatovich Minasov ◽  
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In the last decade, the Ponseti method has been recognized by most orthopedists around the world as the gold standard for clubfoot treatment. However, the efficiency of the Ponseti method in relapsing forms of congenital clubfoot in children has been under-examined. We analyzed 103 patients with relapsing clubfoot, aged 1 to 9 years, who were treated at the National Center of Rehabilitation and Prosthetics of the Disabled from 2017 to 2019. These patients had a relapse with typical clubfoot contractures without multiplanar deformity of the feet. The treatment process consisted in the application of the method of I. Ponseti for all patients; if indicated, transplantation of the tendon of the anterior tibial muscle was performed.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Irina Yurievna Klychkova ◽  
Yuri Alexeevich Lapkin ◽  
Mikhail Pavlovich Konyukhov ◽  
Yulia Aleksandrovna Stepanova ◽  
Vladimir Markovich Kenis

Conservative treatment of congenital clubfoot is generally accepted standard in the world orthopedic practice. There are many techniques that basically include functional methods and techniques of passive correction of the deformity. We analyzed 10 years of experience in the treatment of primary clubfoot according to three techniques - Zatsepin’s method, author’s method and Ponseti method. The evaluation of treatment results in the short and long terms was carried out. Analysis of long-term results showed a statistically significant advantage of Pontseti method over the other used techniques.


Author(s):  
Thomas Borstelmann

This book looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military efforts in Vietnam, this book creates a new framework for understanding the period and its legacy. It demonstrates how the 1970s increased social inclusiveness and, at the same time, encouraged commitments to the free market and wariness of government. As a result, American culture and much of the rest of the world became more—and less—equal. This book explores how the 1970s forged the contours of contemporary America. Military, political, and economic crises undercut citizens' confidence in government. Free market enthusiasm led to lower taxes, a volunteer army, individual 401(k) retirement plans, free agency in sports, deregulated airlines, and expansions in gambling and pornography. At the same time, the movement for civil rights grew, promoting changes for women, gays, immigrants, and the disabled. And developments were not limited to the United States. Many countries gave up colonial and racial hierarchies to develop a new formal commitment to human rights, while economic deregulation spread to other parts of the world, from Chile and the United Kingdom to China. Placing a tempestuous political culture within a global perspective, this book shows that the decade wrought irrevocable transformations upon American society and the broader world that continue to resonate today.


Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 2228
Author(s):  
Martin Hrubisko ◽  
Radoslav Danis ◽  
Martin Huorka ◽  
Martin Wawruch

The intake of food may be an initiator of adverse reactions. Food intolerance is an abnormal non-immunological response of the organism to the ingestion of food or its components in a dosage normally tolerated. Despite the fact that food intolerance is spread throughout the world, its diagnosing is still difficult. Histamine intolerance (HIT) is the term for that type of food intolerance which includes a set of undesirable reactions as a result of accumulated or ingested histamine. Manifestations may be caused by various pathophysiological mechanisms or a combination of them. The problem with a “diagnosis” of HIT is precisely the inconstancy and variety of the manifestations in the same individual following similar stimuli. The diagnosing of HIT therefore requires a complex time-demanding multidisciplinary approach, including the systematic elimination of disorders with a similar manifestation of symptoms. Among therapeutic approaches, the gold standard is a low-histamine diet. A good response to such a diet is considered to be confirmation of HIT. Alongside the dietary measures, DAO supplementation supporting the degradation of ingested histamine may be considered as subsidiary treatment for individuals with intestinal DAO deficiency. If antihistamines are indicated, the treatment should be conscious and time-limited, while 2nd or 3rd generation of H1 antihistamines should take precedence.


2017 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Farhi ◽  
Matteo Maggiori

AbstractWe propose a simple model of the international monetary system. We study the world supply and demand for reserve assets denominated in different currencies under a variety of scenarios: a hegemon versus a multipolar world; abundant versus scarce reserve assets; and a gold exchange standard versus a floating rate system. We rationalize the Triffin dilemma, which posits the fundamental instability of the system, as well as the common prediction regarding the natural and beneficial emergence of a multipolar world, the Nurkse warning that a multipolar world is more unstable than a hegemon world, and the Keynesian argument that a scarcity of reserve assets under a gold standard or at the zero lower bound is recessionary. Our analysis is both positive and normative.


1982 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Foulds

The advent of the small computer has provided a wide range of possibilities for offering new tools in the education of the severely physically disabled. The flexibility of the computer allows the limited motor skills of the disabled child to be amplified to expand that child's interaction with the world. This paper examines the use of the microcomputer in providing communication and environmental control in the personal lives of disabled individuals.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Milda Ratkevičienė

AbstractIntroduction:Health care is one of the most important fields not only in individual countries, but globally as well, yet it remains one of the most sensitive topics, too. Global organisations have calculated that one out of seven residents around the world has some sort of disability. It is very likely that due to various processes, the number of people with disabilities will increase. Therefore, the world in general and each country in particular, Lithuania included, faces a great challenge: to ensure suitable and high-quality accessibility to health care services for the disabled. Each country must have clear political guidelines and strategies how to ensure training of health care specialists qualified and able to carry out their tasks when working with the disabled. Therefore, this article analyses global trends of training specialists to work with the disabled and legal basis of such specialist training in Lithuania.Methods:This article features analysis of scientific literary sources and legal documents.Results:International and national Lithuanian documents have clearly established that people with disabilities have equal rights to health care services like the rest of the population without any reservations, so this norm must be established adhering to the principles of accessibility, suitability and universality, and which basically should be ensured by health care specialists. However, document analysis has revealed that documents governing the training of health care specialists in Lithuania and processes related to it pay little attention to the training of future health care specialists to work with the disabled, while descriptions of some specific areas of studies, e.g. dentistry, pharmacy, etc. designed to train health care specialists do no address the work with the disabled at all.Discussion and conclusions:Analysis has revealed that institutions of higher education in Lithuania that train health care specialists are not legally entitled to, other requirements aside, to focus the study process on the work with the disabled. Therefore, it begs the question whether such specialists are actually ready to implement the requirements guiding the provision of health care services and ensure top-quality and proper provision of services to all members of the society, irrespective of their special needs, disabilities, etc. Therefore, this article can serve as a basis for further research related to the training of health care specialists to work with the disabled in order to identify what practice is applied in this area in other countries, as well as to ensure it internationally, what are the options and means required to implement it and how to improve the training of health care specialists as much as possible to work with the disabled ensuring the quality of health care in particular and their life in general.


2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 795-801
Author(s):  
Zoran Rakonjac

Background/Aim. In this paper we present our modification of the Ponseti method which we have been using for the treatment of severe forms of congenital clubfoot since 2007. The aim of this paper was to determine, on the basis of the analysis of results, the impact of the early tenotomy of the Achilles tendon on the length and results of treatment of severe forms of congenital clubfoot. Methods. The study was prospective and lasted from 2007 to 2016 year. It was implemented in the Clinic for Children's Surgery Banjaluka. The Group 1 consisted of the subjects treated by the modified Ponseti method in the period of 9 years (2007?2016). There were a total of 30 subjects (52 feet). There were 20 (67%) of male and 10 (33%) of female subjects. There were 22 (77%) subjects with bilateral and 8 (27%) with unilateral deformity. The Group 2 consisted of the subjects treated by the classic Ponseti method in the period of 9 years (2007?2016). There were a total of 32 subjects (52 feet). There were 26 (81%) of male and 6 (19%) of female subjects. There were 20 (63%) of subjects with bilateral and 12 (37%) with unilateral deformity. We used the Pirani score for: classification of deformity according to the severity, monitoring of results of the correction, determination of indication for tenotomy of the Achilles tendon and for the analysis of results of the treatment. Results. The total length of treatment in the Group 1 was from 6 to 9 weeks (mean = 6.71 ? 0.871), and in the Group 2 from 9 to 12 weeks (mean = 9.92 ? 0.882) (r = 0.86; p = 0.001). There was no difference in the results of the treatment (?2 = 2.372 df = 2 n = 52 p = 0.936. Conclusion. Applying early tenotomy of Achilles tendon in the treatment of severe forms of congenital club foot significantly shortens the duration of treatment and has no negative impact on the results of treatment.


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