New Research For Clubfoot/Congenital Talipes Equinovarus!

The Clubfoot Research Forum is a new medical research non-profit organisation. This non-profit is serving the largest patient group that is considered born with a disability as 1-7 out of a 1000 babies born are approximately affected. On a global scale that is quite a significant number of patients that needs treatment.

It is strange that up to now, very little has been done in terms of research for this condition. Genetic studies has been limited to a few isolated cases where results could not be traced in other patients and cell biology, etiology studies has not been touched for a long time. Why? That is something that few doctors could provide a reasonable explanation to up to date.

You see, Clubfoot is called the 'come back kid' by doctors. The problem is treatable and great improvements are found in the appearance of the disability, but the problem often re-appears after a number of years, requiring more extensive surgical treatments that often ends in poor long term function.

This condition also complicates other serious underlying conditions such as Spina Bifida, Arthrogryposis, Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and many more. Is it possible that the solution to the other 92 Co-Morbid conditions discovered by the Clubfoot Research Forum can be improved or solved if this problem is addressed with genetic or stem cell research and solutions? Is it possible that it might play a larger role in these other co-morbidities? The answer is, we do not know? No one knows. That is the research that still needs to be done. Our goal is to find out or at least to start somewhere by funding any research that aims to find the specific genes involved or any other research that will make a significant increase in the knowledge about this condition!