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Frenette was born with Unilateral Talipes Equinovarus, more commonly known as unilateral clubfoot. [1] She had corrective surgery at four-months old at the IWK children's hospital in Halifax, which straightened her foot, [2] but left her with a right foot smaller than her left and reduced mobility in her ankle.
Clubfoot is a congenital or acquired defect where one or both feet are rotated inward and downward. [1] [2] Congenital clubfoot is the most common congenital malformation of the foot with an incidence of 1 per 1000 births. [5]
Yamaguchi was born with bi-lateral clubfoot, resulting in serial leg casting for most of the first year of her life followed by corrective shoes and bracing, [12] [13] [5] and began skating as physical therapy when she was 4 or 5 after seeing Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill in the Ice Follies and Ice Capades.
Tai was born with bilateral talipes (clubfoot), and before the age of 12 she had undergone 14 corrective operations to alleviate her condition, sometimes requiring a wheelchair for long periods of time during recovery. [3] In January 2022, her right leg was amputated below the knee after worsening pain in her right foot. [4]
The Ponseti method is a manipulative technique that corrects congenital clubfoot without invasive surgery. It was developed by Ignacio V. Ponseti of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, US, in the 1950s, and was repopularized in 2000 by John Herzenberg in the US and Europe and in Africa by NHS surgeon Steve Mannion.
Hope Walks, formerly CURE Clubfoot, [1] is a Christian nonprofit organization based in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, that treats infant clubfoot in developing countries around the world. As of 2019, Hope Walks operates over 130 clinics in 16 countries including Ethiopia , Niger and the Dominican Republic . [ 2 ]
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George Lane, better known as Clubfoot George, was an alleged outlaw who was hanged on January 14, 1864, in Nevada City, Montana.Lane was later alleged to have been a member of a criminal gang known as the Gang of Innocents and sentenced to death.