You might want to work with an acupuncturist for this syndrome. An acupuncturist will most easily understand the instructions in this essay. If an acupuncturist is not available, you will be able to follow the instructions here by reading the textbook Tracking the Dragon*. This text has drawings and instructions for feeling the flow of channel energy and treating channel disorders such as the one(s) that cause club foot.
Club foot can occur when the channel Qi, channel energy, of one or more of the Yang (downward flowing) leg channels does not make its way down to the foot. The absence of channel Qi is usually on the lateral side of the leg, most often in the UB channel or the GB channel. The foot is rotated medially. In rare cases, a blockage in channel Qi flow in the Yin leg channels might occur, causing the foot to turn laterally. These instructions will assume that the club foot is turning medially. If it is turning laterally, simply reverse the instructions to apply to the Yin leg channels.
Treatment:
Feel the flow of channel Qi on the legs with your hand. Follow the path of the leg Yang channels until you find a location where you can no longer feel the channel Qi moving. The channel Qi is still moving, but you won’t be able to feel it because it is diverting internally or, more likely, it is diverting (“Attacking”) into a nearby channel.
When you find the location where channel Qi is diverting out of its correct path, insert acupuncture needles into the corresponding foot or toe points on that channel. These needles will serve as lightening rods, when you pull the channel Qi back into its correct path.
For example:
In a three year-old with severe medial rotation of the foot, NO UB (urinary bladder) channel Qi was arriving at his lateral toes. The lateral side of the foot had no energy. There was no power in the muscles on the lateral side of his foot. The entire foot was being pulled severely towards the medial side.
By tracking the flow of his channel Qi on his legs, it was apparent that his UB channel was diverting into his Gallbladder channel at mid-thigh. *
Because the patient was only three years old, I didn’t like to use needles. Instead, I stimulated UB-67 manually, gently. Then I stimulate UB-62, -60 , and then UB-40. Then, at the location mid-thigh where the UB channel seemed to stop flowing, I did acupressure just distal to the point where the UB channel disappeared. I alternated stroking by hand the correct, healthy route of the UB channel from the diverging point down to the knee, with manually stimulating the location on the UB channel just distal to the point where the UB channel disappeared. I alternated between stroking the UB channel along the thigh down to the knee and doing acupressure at the critical point. After about ten minutes, the UB channel began flowing correctly down its path all the way to the toes.
Within about ten minutes, the foot slowly re-positioned itself. After that, the child was immediately able to walk normally.
* To learn how to feel the flow of channel Qi, please read Tracking the Dragon. The first chapter of this book, the chapter with instructions on learning this technique, is available for free download at www.pdRecovery.org
The hard copy of this book is available on this website.