Principles Involved in the Treatment of Congenital Club-Foot

The purpose of this paper is to make a plea for conservative treatment of congenital club-foot and to call attention to certain mechanical and pathological principles involved. It is the author's experience that most club feet can be successfully corrected by a series of plaster casts and wedgings, without the use of anaesthetics, forcible manipulations, or operative procedures, and with far better results. ...Ninety per cent of all cases of club-foot which the author has treated have been corrected by plaster casts and wedgings. The …