[Comments about 600 club feet (author's transl)]

This review summarizes functional treatment of club foot along 25 years lead by the pediatric orthopedists of the Bretonneau's Hospital (Paris). The efficiency of this technic is therefore appreciated through 600 cases submitted to a long follow up. The results are analyzed according analytic, clinical and radiographic tests. Its synthesis is also considered at the main stages of the growth of the child and till the end of the growth for most of them. The homogeneity of the team and the long follow-up of this process elaborated at the Bretonneau's Hospital in 1952 accounts the rate of good results which avoid surgery for half of the children. The constant improvement of this functional treatment will refine this original procedure in the future.