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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: At the Northern California Shriners Hospital for Children,
Joel Lerman, M.D.’s work with children born with clubfoot has gained the attention of parents and health care professionals throughout the region. Dr. Lerman is a proponent
of the Ponseti method, a primarily non-surgical treatment that corrects clubfoot in infants through a six to eight-week program of specific manipulation and casting.

In 2007,nearly 400 children with clubfoot were treated with the Ponseti method at the hospital.

SPOKANE: Clubfoot, a congenital foot deformity, affects one in 1,000 children.
The Spokane Shriners Hospital for Children Glen Baird, M.D., also uses the Ponseti method, a primarily non-surgical treatment involving a series of casts and gentle
manipulations of the leg and foot muscles, to treat the condition.
This method is effective for 85-90 percent of his patients.