Dr. Ignacio Ponseti dies at 95; invented nonsurgical treatment for clubfoot
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 02:21
in Health & Medicine
The American Academy of Pediatrics in 2006 endorsed the Ponseti method and it became the accepted procedure. Dr. Ignacio Ponseti, a refugee from the Spanish Civil War who created a nonsurgical way of treating clubfoot in infants that prevented a lifetime of disability, died Oct. 18 at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinic. He was 95 and had suffered a stroke in...