Club-foot deformity management in pediatric rehabilitation: Review article

Abstract

Background: Club foot is most commonly observed congenital deformity among newborns which needs regular concern from medical and healthcare providers (1 in 1000 births). Club foot deformity adversely affects child's daily functions and may cause dependency for basic activities like standing, walking, running, stairs up and down etc. Method: Search engines were used to collect randomized controlled trails (from 2015 to 2022) such as Pubmed, Pubmed Central, Google, Google Scholar, ResearchGate etc. Total 328 articles found on basis of key words, club foot management, treatment, foot deformity, scales etc, among those 98 articles were retrieved on basis of selection criteria of club foot management out of which only 10 articles fulfill the inclusion criteria. Result: In review, found that there was many management approaches were present out of which step stretch, wall stretch, active stretch, towel stretch, passive stretch, common Indian relaxing posture, new novel device to stretch calf i.e. tension bar tendon stretch (TBTS) found effective for club foot management. Conclusion: Among various management techniques foot muscle stretching method, strengthening methods, devices and splints for club foot among children found effective.