In order that each of the nearly 200,000 babies born with clubfoot each year has access to quality treatment, the world needs 4,000 Ponseti practitioners actively treating patients. We are engaged in building the capacity to treat clubfoot, in large part through properly training health care providers throughout the world. You can help make a difference in this crucial international public health initiative.

Training an adequate number of healthcare practitioners who can provide treatment of clubfoot in accordance with the Ponseti Method is the primary responsibility of the Ponseti International Association. Assuming an average incidence of one child born with clubfoot in every 1,000 live births, there are approximately 200,000 new clubfoot cases each year worldwide. Additionally, it is estimated that there are currently nearly one million children with neglected (untreated) clubfoot deformity under the age of 14. Ten years of experience in training healthcare practitioners in the Ponseti Method has indicated that, on average, each properly trained Ponseti provider can treat 50 new patients each year (or one new patient each week) if he/she conducts a clubfoot clinic one day each week as part of an active clinical practice. Since each patient is seen multiple times for serial manipulation and casting, as well as follow-up, 50 new patients per provider per year has proven to be a manageable caseload. Using this estimate, treating 200,000 new cases of clubfoot each year requires a minimum of 4,000 Ponseti-proficient providers globally. This estimate assumes that providers are strategically located in proportion to the clubfoot cases, including in developing countries where 80% of the neglected clubfoot cases are located.