Alison finally had her appointment with the orthopedic surgeon today. As usual, it was one of those good news/not-so-good news kind of appointments. She had baseline x-rays of her hips taken and the good news is that they look perfect. Then Dr. Craig had her walk around a little bit and examined her legs. He confirmed that her in-toeing is probably a result of muscle weakness, because she doesn't appear to have any more tibia torsion in her right leg than in her left leg. That is good news, too, because it means she won't need surgery. However, because she also doesn't flex her right foot as well as she does her left foot, he thinks she needs a brace, an AFO. This was disappointing for us because, even though we go to these appointments expecting to get the news that she'll be braced, both of her SB doctors have said they didn't think she needed it. But before we move ahead with getting a brace, Dr. Craig wants to talk to Dr. Hurvitz and make sure we're all on the same page. It should be interesting to see what the end recommendation is, because Dr. Hurvitz did say he never braces for in-toeing. In the meantime, Dr. Craig did give us some ideas of things we could work on with Alison to try and help strengthen her leg muscles, such as having her kick a ball to a target and pedaling a tricyle (which means mommy and daddy need to go shopping :). We should be hearing something from either Dr. Hurvitz or Dr. Craig (or both, who knows) in the next week or so.