Ignacio Ponseti

Spanish physician

Ignacio Ponseti (3 June 1914 – 18 October 2009) was a Spanish-American physician, specializing in orthopedics.He was born on 3 June 1914 in Menorca, part of the Balearic Islands, Spain, Ponseti was the son of a watchmaker and spent his childhood helping repair watches.

This skill was said to eventually contribute to his abilities as an orthopedist.He served three years as a medic during the Spanish Civil War treating orthopedic injuries of wounded soldiers.

He left Spain shortly after the end of the war and became a faculty member and practicing physician at the University of Iowa, where he developed his ground-breaking, non-surgical treatment for the clubfoot defect - the Ponseti Method.

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