Serial Casting

Evan is just hanging out in the office waiting for Dr. Hart.


The process of serial casting.

The finished product. Evan also got a cast shoe to go over this so he can walk on it. I have arranged for him to use his wheelchair on the bus and at school if needed for the time he is in the casts.

I should explain a little about serial casting. Basically, each week they will take the cast off and stretch his foot more and then put another cast on and this will go on for about 6 weeks as I understand it. While we were there we also had an analysis done in the motion lab which is basically a video of Evan walking and using his left hand and then when we are all done we will do another one so that the Dr. can keep track of his progress. I am hoping that I will get to see Evan walking flat footed on both feet, that would be such a miracle for us and for him. So I will be spending a lot of time at Shriner's over the next few weeks and probably over the next few years doing this to keep Evan from toe walking.We will be doing Botox on his left hand on May 26th so we are not away from Botox all together. I feel like good things are happening and I am really glad to be working Evan's spasticity and gait. And with the serial casting Evan will get to have a different color cast each week, well they only have 3 boy colors so it will be blue, red, green and then repeat.