Approximately one child out of every 1,000 worldwide are born each year with clubfoot, a birth defect that causes one or both feet to be twisted. The good news is that as long as these children are ...

Clubfoot affects one in a thousand babies born in the United States, but with proper corrective treatment and follow-up, infants born with clubfoot can have feet compatible with an active, normal ...

Editor's note: The Press-Citizen has been spending time inside the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' renowned Ponseti Clubfoot Treatment Center in recent months, reporting on its leaders' ...

Clubfoot affects one in a thousand babies born in the United States, but with proper corrective treatment and follow-up, infants born with clubfoot can have feet compatible with an active, normal ...

The 12th floor of the new University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital was a fitting place to meet with two Iowa City men who are key players in the worldwide quest to help kids with clubfoot ...

Children born with clubfoot in low-income countries don't have many prospects if the abnormality is left untreated: they often can't walk and the stigma makes it difficult for them to marry and find ...

Washington, DC - Ironically, one of the hottest news stories to come out of the recent meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is one about the decline in surgery as a treatment. Over ...

IOWA CITY - A $1 million gift to the University of Iowa Foundation from two UI graduates will enable the UI to continue the pioneering work of the late Dr. Ignacio Ponseti in countries around the ...

Dr. Ignacio Ponseti, a refugee from the Spanish Civil War who created a nonsurgical way of treating clubfoot in infants that prevented a lifetime of disability, died Oct. 18 at the University of Iowa ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to recently published results, 95% of children with previously untreated clubfeet that underwent the ...

Seventy-seven years ago, on June 1, 1941, a travel-weary Spanish doctor stepped off a Greyhound bus in Iowa City. It was Sunday, two days before his 27th birthday. He later said, “I’ll never forget ...