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| - This review is based on my experience over seeing this location for my child's bilateral clubfoot, treatment using the Ponseti Method. If your child has Clubfoot, please read before you get seen here!!! If your child has Clubfoot, please for your child's sake choose the doctor to go to by checking here: http://www.ponseti.info/ponseti-doctors-by-location.html
To begin, I wasn't aware my child had clubfoot until I gave birth. I was devastated. I didn't know much about the condition but was advised it was treatable and the sooner it is treated, the better. I got the referral from St Rose Pediatrics to see Dr. Camp and at 9 days old my child was in the 1st week of casts. During the treatment I joined a support group on Facebook and read some more on the condition itself (I recommend "The Parent's Guide to Clubfoot" by Betsy Miller) which helped me noticed a few red flags. During the casting process at one point Dr Camp was not there for the week and instead since neither of my two insurances covered the other dr (hard to believe but ok), I was given an assistant to do the casting. This is a HUGE red flag and honestly what I believed where things started to go downhill. The casting looked awful, but I didn't question as who am I to question a professional (so I thought). Then on the day we were scheduled a tenotomy, when I asked what sort of anesthesia they would used and I was told none. No numbing of any sort, this surgical procedure would be done as is. Thankfully Dr Camp felt it wasn't needed but placed my child in casts for another 3 weeks. During this time, we noticed that the casts were looking a bit too tight and by the 3rd week my child was super cranky. When we go back to remove the casts, apparently legs grew in the casts and they were swollen and bruised. My child's feet were measured while the casts were still on, another red flag. The day my child was supposed to transition from casts to boots and bar, their bracing specialist was on vacation and there was no replacement person to set it up. We had to pick up the bar, bring it upstairs and found out the bracing specialist didn't correctly set it up so Dr Camp's assistant had to set it up (which he was visibly upset about). I also was given a hard time over the boots I chose for the bracing stage as it wasn't the ones they liked, despite being on the form as an option and recommended in the support group I am in. I was given no direction as to how the exercises had to be done and was just told if he relapses more casts have to be done. I posted about this along with a photo of my child's legs after the last cast was removed in my support where Dr. Dobbs (well known Clubfoot specialist, look him up) suspected my child now had rocker bottom feet which is a result of poor casting and advised me at this point expert casting is recommended. I also found the bar was set to the incorrect degrees and fixed it at home myself after calling the office to verify. Because I couldn't travel to Dr Dobbs, I looked online to get a second opinion and come to find out NO DOCTOR IN NEVADA IS RECOGNIZED BY THE PONSETI ASSOCIATION!!! At this point I removed the boots and bar until my 2nd opinion.
We now travel to Southern California. We found my child does need the surgery after all and because of this and his feet he will still need 4-6 more weeks of casting. With our new doctor, I had to hold back crying with joy as my child's feet were checked and casted without him crying for the first time!!! I apologize this is so long but I hope my experience will save another family from making the same mistake I did.
It wasn't until after all this happened I found other mothers in my situation where they had a bad experience and now go out of state as well.
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