A majority of the parents mistake clubfoot for polio. They say that the child was born with polio and many of these children in rural places are not administered with polio drops. The risk of these disabled children getting affected by polio is higher.
There are five major differences between polio and clubfoot.
- Polio affects children after they are born, whereas clubfoot is a birth deformity where children are always born with clubfoot; never after birth.
- Polio is a virus but the cause for clubfoot is still unknown.
- Polio can be prevented since the cause is known, whereas clubfoot cannot be prevented since the reason is still unknown.
- Polio cannot be treated or corrected completely whereas clubfoot can be treated with over 95% success.
- Polio may affect the whole leg and upper limbs whereas in clubfoot only the foot gets affected and deformed.
