Since Davis has grown out of his current AFO's, we had a fitting this morning for new, bigger ones. The whole process is pretty neat. They create a 'negative' casting by rolling plaster bandages around each leg and foot. Once they've harden, the Orthotist cuts them off with an X-Acto knife. Which sounds scary, but they insert a rubber tube underneath the plaster and cut on top of that. No blood involved. And thanks to a blue sucker, Davis sat through the whole thing like a champ!
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