by Paul Pounder | Mar 10, 2024 | Blog, Personal Stories, Talipes / Clubfoot
My story almost never even had a beginning, it could have been very close to just being an end. A mix up with the months of my due date all the way back in1991 led to me being born on the 20th of September rather than my early August due date. I ended up being born to...
by Paul Pounder | Oct 11, 2023 | Blog, Personal Stories, Perthes
In the summer of 2020, Jay started getting pains in his leg after playing out with his friends, he was developing a limp so we knew something wasn’t right. After discussions about growing pains and possible Leukaemia we took jay to Alder Hey. He was lucky that...
by Paul Pounder | Oct 3, 2023 | Blog, Personal Stories, Talipes / Clubfoot
When Fred was 3 he started complaining of pains in his left leg, at first we thought he’d pulled a muscle. He was a typical 3-year-old boy running and jumping off everything. He kept complaining, sometimes of pain in his left knee, and sometimes he had a limp. We had...
by Paul Pounder | Jun 21, 2023 | Blog, Personal Stories, Talipes / Clubfoot
The most levelling realisation as a parent is that everybody, every child, has something going on at some point. For me, I was born with two clubbed feet in 1978. It wasn’t a total surprise when I arrived. There were no scans of course, but my mother and her sister...
by Paul Pounder | Jun 18, 2023 | Blog, Hip Dysplasia (DDH), Personal Stories
“I’ve struggled with hip pain for as long as I can remember. I have loved all sports since being tiny and had a real passion for ballet from the age of 4. When I was a child/young teen the hip pain I was experiencing was always put down to growing pains. ...
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