Posted by Keith on December 21, 2003 at 08:06:06:
Today treatment for perthes seems to be more surgical than conservative. This may be good, but I am a firm believer of old fashioned treatments such as braces and casts before surgical intervention.Sometimes surgery may be unovoidable, but when conservative treatment might be the answer, I say reinstate it has a standard. My son had perthers in the 1960s when it was nearly all conservative treatmen. It worked for him and many others I know of. The aurgument maybe conservative methods are far longer than surgical treatment. This may be the case but the question is, is the outcome the same. My son spent nearly 10 months in a petrie cast with crosbars holding his legs a massive 47 inches apart and this worked. If in todays standards I had a child with perthes I would like the old fashiond methods still used.
keith