miraclefeet
Without proper treatment, many of these children walk only with great difficulty. The impact of this birth defect imposes physical, social and financial burdens that can be devastating - yet are avoidable.
The miraclefeet mission is to improve access to treatment of clubfoot for children in developing countries.
To learn more, please visit us at:
http://www.miraclefeet.org
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 in Nicaragua, so we were very excited to share how miraclefeet is treating clubfoot.
After talking with Dr. Greg Schmale and Dr. Emily Squyer from the University of Washington, as well as Dr. Ed Campion from UNC-Chapel Hill, they observed us testing the miraclefeet brace and were quite interested. They also confirmed that the doctors we were working with in Nicaragua were excellent and that the hospital desperately needs help.
This chance meeting gave us an audience with a group of doctors already doing work in Nicaragua and who offered to help test the miraclefeet brace with the time comes. The potential for more miraclefeet exposure and clubfoot treatment using the Ponseti Method are huge especially since these doctors are orthopedic surgeons and are very plugged into this particular network. Exciting times indeed!
