by Paul Pounder | Aug 13, 2024 | Blog, Hip Dysplasia (DDH), Personal Stories
I was diagnosed with hip dysplasia just two days after I was born. At first the doctors thought it was only affecting one hip, but a scan showed it was both of my hips. When I was one month old, I was put into a pelvic brace. Unfortunately, it didn’t work and at...
by Paul Pounder | Jun 9, 2024 | Blog, Personal Stories, Talipes / Clubfoot
I was born with severe club foot in both feet in 1995. I was seen by my consultant (Dr Colin Ogilvie) within 24 hours of being born. Dr Ogilvie said he ‘hoped’ they would get me to walk but it was not guaranteed. For the first six months of my life Dr Ogilvie used the...
by Paul Pounder | May 31, 2024 | Blog, Hip Dysplasia (DDH), Personal Stories
Isabelle was born with bilateral hip dysplasia meaning both her hips were fully dislocated. She wasn’t breech, nor do we have any family history of hip problems so when the doctor identified her ‘clicky hip’ at her 6-week check-up, we weren’t particularly concerned....
by Paul Pounder | Apr 25, 2024 | Blog, Hip Dysplasia (DDH), Volunteers Stories
I have been on very long health battle since I last wrote. Unfortunately, due to increased hip pain, I was unable to sit my A-Levels last year; but my school were great and arranged for me to re-sit them this year. With the increased hip pain, my gait dramatically...
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. ...
by Paul Pounder | May 18, 2023 | Blog, Our Stories, Talipes / Clubfoot
We are thrilled to announce our new ambassador, Maggie Alphonsi MBE. Maggie is the face of international women’s rugby, having played rugby for England an impressive 74 times and even won the World Cup. Today she commentates for ITV, BT Sport, Sky Sports and the BBC...
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