An Observational Study to Assess the Orthopaedic Management of Club Foot at Tertiary Health Care Facility

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Abstract (English)

Abstract:
Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the orthopaedic management of club foot at tertiary health care
centre.
Methods: This was cross-sectional study carried out in the Department of Orthopaedics with idiopathic club foot
less than one year age presented to the Orthopaedic Department during the two-years were included into the study.
In the two-years period there were 50 patients after written explained consent were enrolled to study. All necessary
details of the patients were noted like age, sex, pre interventions modified Pirani score noted.
Results: The majority of the patients were in the age group of 0-3 (months) were 40%, followed by 3-6 were 32%,
6-9 were 18%, 9-12 were 10%. The majority of the patients were Female i.e. 64% and Male were 36%. In all the
age groups the Post treatment Pirani score significantly differed as compared to pre-treatment score i.e. 0-3 were
5.32 ±2.18 and 1.55 ± 1.035 (t=8.82,df=72,p<0.01); 3-6 were 5.48± 0.82 and 1.58 ± 1.32
(t=12.58,df=56,p<0.001); 6-9 were 5.75 ± 2.15 and 2.18±0.96 (t=9.91df=26,p<0.05); 9-12 were 5.36 ± 1.24 and
1.86 ± 1.34 (t=10.20,df=24,p<0.001) were statistically significant.
Conclusion: According to the results of our investigation, the ponsetti approach was very efficient in the
management of idiopathic club foot, as measured by the Pirani score for club foot assessment almost all the
patients were doing well with this treatment.