Patient-Reported Outcomes in Children With Idiopathic Clubfoot Deformity Treated With Ponseti Casting: Does Recurrence of the Deformity Play a Role?

To our knowledge, this is the first study to use PROMIS scores to evaluate the effect of recurrence on PROs in children with Ponseti-treated clubfoot. The findings of this study suggest that children who sustained recurrence did not have markedly different PROMIS outcomes compared with nonrecurrent children, regardless of treatment modality for recurrence, indicating limited effect of recurrence on PROs at an average 5-year follow-up.