LEMOYNE, Pa., May 24 CURE Clubfoot Worldwide, an effort to eradicate clubfoot, will focus on building treatment programs in developing countries, the Pennsylvania group says.The goal is to create a treatment network in each country that can raise awareness about the deformity, train nationals to perform simple, corrective casting procedures and provide funding for poor children unable to afford treatment, according to Dr. Scott Harrison, founder of CURE International, based in Lemoyne, Pa.As part of the initiative, CURE has announced a partnership with the International Ponseti Association, based at the University of Iowa, to standardize training and treatment protocols using the Ponseti Method, which is based on 50 years of medical research and development of treatment methods for clubfoot in children.Dr. Ignatio Ponseti and the medical team at the University of Iowa are the recognized worldwide clubfoot authorities.Copyright 2007 by UPI
