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A 13-Year Journey to His First Steps

A 13-year-old boy from the southern part of India was born with a rare congenital anomaly—one of his legs had  no knee joint , and in its place was a  small, deformed foot rotated upward . Since birth, he had  never walked on his own two feet . His only way to move was by using  crutches , and every step of life depended on them. The family spent years visiting prosthetists doctors across the country. Every expert gave the same opinion— amputation —as the only technically feasible solution. But the family was emotionally unprepared for such a drastic step. When they reached  Foot Care Jaipur , their biggest question was: “Can our child ever walk on his own feet without amputation?” This became the foundation of one of our biggest challenges— to accommodate the complex residual limb and deformed foot inside a prosthetic socket  while ensuring  proper weight management, alignment, and safe weight transfer. After a detailed clinical evaluation and multipl...