11th 13th November 2007

Highlights from the presentations are available to read by downloading the PDF file on the right.

These are not comprehensive accounts of the presentations, but rather a highlighted tour to give a flavour of the event with special emphasis on information for parents and the public.

PDF files of the PowerPoint presentations are available for some by clicking on the links on the download menue on the right.

The Supporting Evidence
Dr Fred Dietz, Iowa

There are some pictures of minor surgery in this presentation.
This presentation aimed to answer these three questions by looking at published papers treating clubfoot.

1.  What treatment most effectively obtains initial correction of idiopathic clubfoot?

2.  What treatment most effectively maintains correction?

3.  What treatment gives best long term foot function?

The Hunt for the Clubfoot Gene

Mr S L Barker BSc(Hons) MD FRCSEd(Tr&Orth)
Aberdeen

The 'hunt' is powered by scientific curiosity but more crucially speaks to the unmet parental need to 'have an answer'. Answers could also promise more effective treatments or preventions.
Up to now no single candidate has emerged.

Clubfoot Treatments Across the UK and the Parents' Experience

Ros Shelton, Sue Banton, steps

User-led research was carried out to gain a snapshot of the treatment of clubfoot throughout the UK.

Clubfoot Treatment in Malawi: Awarness, Access & Outcomes

Rubini Pathy, University of Toronto, Canada

Rubini Pathy and the steps research was supported by the Jane Bettridge Fellowship Fund to attend the Manchester Clubfoot conference to present the results of her research in Malawi. For more information on the Fund click here

Prenatal Diagnosis

Sarah Russell, Consultant Radiologist, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester

This short presentation looks at the role of prenatal diagnosis in the management of talipes. Ultrasound is very ‘operator dependent’ and  it looks at what factors influence the sensitivity of prenatal US in the detection of any structural abnormality. It then shows what we know from large reviews about talipes cases detected prenatally – what other tests are appropriate, in what circumstances and can we reliably prognosticate from the scan findings regarding postnatal outcome? Examples of talipes will be shown and an outline given of the delivery of the Regional Prenatal Diagnostic Service.