STUDY DESIGN Pilot study. BACKGROUND Ankle foot orthoses (AFOs) and footwear combination (FC) is a commonly prescribed medical device given to children with cerebral palsy (CP) in an attempt to improve their gait. Biomechanically optimising the AFO-FC often requires large adaptations to the sole of the user’s footwear. There is currently a dearth…[Read more]

In the KH group (19 patients), short-term complications occurred in two cases (10%), with one parietal hematoma and one case of intensive pain; we had four recurrences at 1 year (21%). LOS was shorter in the SR group (mean 4 days vs 6, p = 0.004). The KH group had 2 (10%) occurrences of chronic seroma and one bowel perforation (5%), while the SR…[Read more]