Are there things you would like to know about The Straight Child Foundation? Here are some Frequently Asked Questions and our Answers to these questions.
The Straight Child Foundation is a non-governmental,
nonprofit organization with a focus on childhood disabilities and deformities
and wholistic children’s outreaches.
The founding chairman is Dr Peace Amaraegbulam, a
child of God serving as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with the Federal
Medical Center Umuahia. She is passionate about children’s orthopaedics
and humanitarian services and finds the organization as a melting point of all
she does.
The organization was inaugurated on Tuesday, 21 st
November 2018.
The Straight Child Foundation has a physical office at #2 Hon
Justice Obisike Oji Crescent, opposite Blossom’s Women and Family
Hospital, off Finbarr’s Road Umuahia.
The organization derives funds from donations and
support from individuals. We also have a collaboration with MiracleFeet, an
NGO in United States which contributes to the care of Clubfoot using the
Ponseti method. This partnership currently funds the Ponseti treatment of
children with clubfoot in six hospitals in South East and South South
Nigeria.
The Straight Child Foundation is a name that depicts the desires of
the team members to contribute to the correction of deformities and also
contribute to the wholistic care of children living with disabilities and
deformities.
Cerebral Palsy is a collection of symptoms and
signs, particularly affecting the motor development of the child, which arises
due to a damage to the developing or immature brain.
The commonest cause in Nigeria is birth asphyxia, but
prematurity, jaundice and sepsis in the newborn are other important causes.
Currently, there is no cure for Cerebral Palsy but the
treatment is aimed at functional independence of the child as much as is
possible.
Clubfoot is a foot deformity whereby one or two feet of
the child is/are turned inwards and upward.
Most cases are idiopathic, meaning that the cause is not
known. However, some may be associated with other abnormalities or may
be caused by neurological conditions and infections.
Ponseti method of treatment is a non-surgical
treatment method that is globally accepted for clubfoot care currently.
You can take a child between 0-5 years to
FMC Umuahia, UUTH Uyo, AE-FUTH Abakaliki, NAUTH Nnewi, ISTH
Irrua and FMC Lokoja for the MiracleFeet-supported Clubfoot care by the
Ponseti method. This mode of treatment makes the care easily accessible at
little or no cost to the patient.
Most feet within the correctible age are
corrected after an average of 4-8 casts. Then the correction is maintained
with foot abduction braces, which are also provided by MiracleFeet.
No, clubfoot cannot be outgrown without treatment.