by Sam Harris | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog, Hip Dysplasia (DDH), Personal Stories
Elise struggled with femoral retroversion, also known as hip retroversion which is a condition related to hip dysplasia. This is the story of her diagnosis, operations and recovery to date: Hi I’m Elise and I live in Northern Ireland. I’ve recently turned 18...
by Sam Harris | Feb 18, 2022 | Blog, Hip Dysplasia (DDH), Perthes, SCFE/ SUFE – Slipped Epiphysis
Join us this March to celebrate Hip Health Awareness Month. Throughout the month we’ll be sharing information about hip conditions and raising awareness of signs to look out for. Watch our video below to find out the scale of the problem. We’re hoping to...
by Sam Harris | Jan 15, 2022 | Blog, Fibular Hemimelia, Limb loss, Personal Stories, PFFD (Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency)
Five-year-old Leo White from Greater Manchester is the first child in the world to receive a Limb-art prosthetic leg cover after leg amputation due to PFFD and fibular hemimelia. He was presented with his own Pokémon leg cover at Christmas by Mark Williams, founder of...
by Sam Harris | Jan 15, 2022 | Blog, Limb loss
New prosthetic leg covers for children launched by Limb-art in conjunction with Steps Five-year-old Leo from Manchester is the first to benefit (click to read his story). Multi award-winning Limb-art, which makes ‘The world’s coolest prosthetic leg covers’, has...
by Sam Harris | Jan 10, 2022 | Blog, India, Personal Stories, Talipes / Clubfoot, Uncategorized
Steps works with partners around the world to improve life for people with lower limb conditions. Our partner in India, CURE International India Trust (CIIT) sent us this story: Gurpreet was born in 2016 to a farmer’s family and his parents were devastated to...
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