BRACHYMETATARSIA is a congenital deformity that happens at birth. It happens when the growth plate that is supposed to produce the naturally long toe just stop growing for an unknown reason. This causes the fourth tough to be short, and hang above the rest of the toes. In order to fix it, a patient needs to have surgery. There is no other way to fix this deformity. In this video, I am showing how it was fixed and the one step procedure. However, this procedure can also be fixed in the gradual pr

Right outside the emergency room at a local hospital, this baby has a birth deformity, making it a challenge to keep up with his family. 🥹 | John Debacker

About 1 in 33 babies in the U.S. is born with a birth defect. Even when families do everything right to have a healthy pregnancy, there is still a chance that things won’t go as planned. In honor of Birth Defects Awareness Month, March of Dimes is sharing helpful tips so more families like the Morrises can have the best possible outcome. | March of Dimes