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Of cases get treated, experts have been perfected using a noninvasive technique to coax feet into position even for teenagers. here s our global health correspondent naomi grimley. at 1a, sirinya relies on his mother to take him to clinic, but she ll do whatever it takes for a son who was born with both feet twisted iwards. he has club foot, a congenital condition affecting one in 800. this is how he used to walk. he s always dreamed of being a footballer. translation: some people said that he wouldn t walk, that he was incurable. in school, kids teased him about his feet. one time he refused to go to class for three days. it caused me real heartache. senegalese medics are among those leading the way in treating older children using this so called ponseti method. before a child who had already ....

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