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Today we're going back to the 1950s and 60s, and the pioneering

work to treat Club Foote carried out in Iowa in the US by Dr Ignacio Ponsetti. Club Foote is when a child is born with a feet turned in and under,

and every year more than 200,000 children around the world are born with a condition.

If untreated, they can lead to a lifetime of disability, with pain,

difficulty walking and exclusion from society. The standard treatment used to involve surgery with limited long-term success. The Ponsetti method

long-term success. The Ponsetti method, a procedure that doesn't involve surgery,

revolutionised the orthopedic world.

Dr Ponsetti was born on the Spanish island of Minorka in

1914 and died in 2009. He left Spain after the Civil War and spent the rest of his life in

Iowa studying the treatment of club foot.

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates had treated the condition through the manipulation

of the bones, but as surgery developed in the 19th and 20th centuries, such non-invasive procedures

fell out of favour. Dr. Ponsetti was aged 90 and still practicing when he gave an interview about his work.

He said that dissecting the feet of stillborn babies

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