June 2011
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miraclefeet intern reports from Ecuador
This blog post is adapted from a post on Austin Shaw’s blog who is currently in Ecuador as a summer intern for miraclefeet. Picture below is of the Otavalo Market in Ecuador.
This week I was assigned the task of analyzing club foot in the area of Otavalo, most famous for its all-day, everyday market. Our goal here is to get an understanding of clubfoot in more...
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miraclefeet in Brazil: Our work with baby Vinisius
Vinisius is a 15 month old boy who was born with bilateral clubfeet. He is currently a patient at Hospital da Baleia in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Hospital da Baleia was not the first place he received treatment. Previously, Vinisus was treated using a method other than Ponseti. After a year with no success, the other clinic referred him to Hospital...
clubfoot treatment in Brazil
In the short amount of time I’ve been with miraclefeet, I’ve met so many great doctors with a passion for helping children with clubfoot, many of whom you’ve probably read about on this blog! I’ve also had the opportunity to meet the professionals that support them, such as physical therapists, nurses, and casting technicians. There is a lot of work to be done in a clubfoot clinic and it’s...
May 2011
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Oi (hello) from Salvador, Brazil!
Today was a very interesting miraclefeet day full of the ups and downs that represent some of the challenges of working on clubfoot in Brazil. The day began with the startling news that the largest children’s hospital and treatment center for clubfoot in the state of Bahia – Hospital Martagão Gesteira – was closing, but we later found out this was untrue. We received good...
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Brazil – The Work Continues! – PART II
miraclefeet’s Lauren Wall & Chesca Colloredo are pictured here with clubfoot patient, Nathalyn, (pictured in pink) with her grateful mother and grandmother
By Chesca Colloredo – Managing Director, miraclefeet
Continued from our visit on Monday to HU-USP in Brazil, Dr. Ferriera wants to work on reducing the time it takes for children born with clubfoot to get referred to her...
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Brazil – The Work Continues! – PART I
Dr. Laura Ferreira, her casting technician, Malia, and a student nurse, putting the third cast on a six week old baby.
Post by Chesca Colloredo – Managing Director, miraclefeet
Lauren (our new program manager…more on that later) and I arrived in Sao Paulo on Monday morning and headed straight to Hospital Universidade (HU-USP) to visit Dr. Laura Ferreira’s miraclefeet-supported clubfoot...
miraclefeet reports from POSNA conference in...
miraclefeet recently attended the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America’s annual meeting in Montreal where we met with many of the U.S. doctors involved in working on clubfoot internationally.
We had the wonderful opportunity to meet with Dr. Pirani and Dr. Norgrove, who are among those doing the most to address clubfoot in developing countries. In addition, miraclefeet’s...
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miraclefeet travels to Montreal for POSNA meeting
miraclefeet Managing Director, Chesca Colloredo, will travel to Montreal tomorrow for the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America’s annual meeting. She will be joined by several of the doctors who sit on the miraclefeet board of directors as she networks with medical professionals involved with clubfoot in developing countries. This trip to Montreal is an opportunity to...
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Statistics from Mumbai = miraclefeet SUCCESS
On miraclefeet’s recent trip to Mumbai, India we had the opportunity to work alongside CURE in providing a Ponseti Method training course to orthopedic surgeons and medical residents. Ninety-five medical professionals attended the one day training course where they casted at least one foot model and in most cases an actual child with clubfoot. There were six stations with 15 participants...
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Update from São Paulo Clinic
Dr. Laura Ferreira heads up the clubfoot clinic in São Paulo and was our very first partnership formed in Brazil back in October 2010. The new director of the hospital where Dr. Ferreira is very excited about the progress she and her team are making with treatments using the Ponseti Method.
In fact, the hospital intends to present treatment results to the Secretary of Health for São Paulo in...
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miraclefeet news from Mumbai, India!
Last week in India was filled with extraordinary extremes. We started at Lady Hardinge Hospital in Delhi, where Cure Clubfoot Worldwide (CCW), has created what they believe to be the biggest clubfoot clinic in the world with more than 700 children enrolled since its inception two years ago. All counselors were there when we arrived, getting ready to receive the 50 patients they...
April 2011
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miraclefeet spreads hope in India!
miraclefeet is launching a program with Cure Clubfoot Worldwide (CCW) and the Government of Maharashtra State to support five new clubfoot clinics in and around Mumbai, India.
As part of a visit to kick off the Ponseti training for these clinics, Bridget Ryan Berman, co-founder and board member of miraclefeet and Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld, managing Director of miraclefeet, spent the first...
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News from Belo Horizonte - Brazil
miraclefeet just received the signed final partnership agreement from Hospital da Baleia in Brazil, which now brings our total number of clinics in Brazil to two. Hospital da Baleia is a charitable hospital that assists underserved populations in Belo Horizonte – the largest city in the state of Minas Gerias.
This clinic is now the largest clubfoot clinic in Brazil with...
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There are no coincidences!
On our recent trip to Nicaragua, we ran into some doctors at the same clinic on a medical mission with Cooperación Ortopédica Americano Nicargüense (COAN), a nonprofit group based out of….wait for it…Raleigh, NC! As you know, this is literally right down the road from miraclefeet headquarters in Chapel Hill. COAN works to optimize the healthcare and well-being of people...
