Many say that not much can be done in patients suffering from Charcot-Marie-Tooth, who have no solution, who have to live a lifetime walking with difficulty or having frequent falls. Three things learned from the testimony of this patient with Charcot-Marie-Tooth We can learn from the testimony of this patient, who had been suffering the consequences of the disease for 38 years, without receiving adequate treatment, to cure him. He walked in equinus cavus varus feet, which meant a lot of instability to walk because his feet fell off. In addition, he had the left leg turned outward (or in ..read more

For all our followers, Merry Christmas. May the Child God bring you Peace and Health. The post Merry Christmas und Frohe Weihnachten appeared first on Dr. Fernando Noriega's blog of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth & Neurologic Foot deformities ..read more

This title is a reality that is repeated with amazing frequency. Disappointment with the therapies received in neurologic patients, before coming to IICOP. I empathize with them, because most since their first years of life have been treated with very little success. This has led to the disappointment of going to the doctor again and again. And every year receive the same news that there is no solution for your disease. We could talk about Charlot-Marie-Tooth, about the sequels of polio, spina bifida or cerebral palsy. Just 4 days ago I could see a patient with the first disease. At 50, he had ..read more

This is the story of a family from southern Italy, in which several members are affected. But she has been the first of the family that operates their feet. All her relatives who suffer from the disease have never been operated. Possibly because no one has recommended it. But she seeing the difficulty to walk and make a normal life. At 25-year-old, she made this courageous decision. As a child she began, with the usual symptoms, falls, unstable feet and ankles. As you grow and increase your body weight. The deformity of the feet was accentuated. More than a year ago, I could see her in Barc ..read more

This phrase is correct to improve in this girl gait with  hereditary spastic paraparesis. It is also known as Charcot-Erb disease. This is due to a degeneration of a part of the spinal cord. It appears in the lumbar spine and can ascend to the rest. Our patients are generally children between 5 and 10 years old. Although we also treat adults. It can sometimes be confused with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. That is also an autosomal recessive inherited disease in many cases. What parents see is that children walk with a short step. Putting the legs in. What causes frequent falls. With fatigue wh ..read more

This is what we used several months ago to treat the deformity he had on his two feet. 14 hours of the operating room to correct his deformed feet by Charcot-Marie-Tooth and by previously performed surgeries. Despite taking many years with his deformed feet our protagonist participated in para olimpic sports . But when it came to walking on both feet, his situation deteriorated more and more. Because of the pain it presented and the difficulty of being able to wear normal shoes. How you get to this situation? Easy to understand, the disease itself that appears in the first years of life. And ..read more

Well, there is the difficulty in getting a patient with spina bifida and a crouching gait to run. It is not an easy task to achieve. But like many things in orthopedic surgery, with effort and determination. You can reach it. The crouching gait, flat equine feet valgus, characteristic gift of children with spina bifida or cerebral palsy. Malfunction of the muscles of the thigh and especially those of the calf. They condition the appearance of this deformity, which is usually combined with deformities of the feet. Equine feet flat valgus or flat valgus. They are characteristic of this type of d ..read more

While I wait at gate 15 of terminal 1 of the Munich airport. Back to Spain, I have time to write these lines. That they are a manifesto of the great empathy that I feel for my patients. As you know, the word empathy means: “the intention to understand the feelings and emotions, trying to experience in an objective and rational way what another individual feels”. It is a word that comes from the Greek and means emotion. Because I feel emotion for those who suffer, sometimes in very complicated situations. And these do not disappear when you go out the door of the hospital or the consultation. Y ..read more