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BMC Pediatrics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Motor ability in children treated for idiopathic clubfoot. A controlled pilot study 1 2,3 1 Hanneke Andriesse* , Lena Westbom and Gunnar Hägglund Address: 1Department of Orthopaedics, Lund University Hospital, Sweden, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden, 2Division of Paediatrics, Department of Clinical Sciences (Lund), Lund University, Lund, Sweden and 3Childrens Hospital, University Hospital, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden Email: Hanneke Andriesse* - hanneke.andriesse@med.lu.se; Lena Westbom - Lena.Westbom@med.lu.se; Gunnar Hägglund - Gunnar.hagglund@med.lu.se * Corresponding author Published: 15 December 2009 Received: 5 August 2009 Accepted: 15 December 2009 BMC Pediatrics 2009, 9:78 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-9-78 This article is available from: /1471-2431/9/78 © 2009 Andriesse et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: To study motor ability at seven years of age in children treated for idiopathic clubfoot and its relation to clubfoot laterality, foot status and the amount of surgery performed. Methods: Twenty children (mean age 7.5 years, SD 3.2 months) from