A good visit to the Orthopedic surgeon

We went to the orthopedic surgeon at the children's hospital yesterday for N's yearly visit. Since we didn't live here last year, this was our first visit to this doctor. I felt a little sheepish. I didn't have all of her records from Tucson, but I did have a letter from her geneticist, and an orthopod (that I didn't like) who saw her 10 months ago. Basically she's doing great. He seems to think that her muscle tone will improve, and her ligaments will tighten a bit also. Her knees are already less hypermobile than they were at the last visit. Her feet are exceedingly flat, but he says she has arch potential which means that they're not rigid. She could have surgery done as a teenager, but I think we'll have to cross that bridge when we get to it. She does have quite a bit of femoral torsion, which means a twist in the femur. But, it is usually benign and he expects that it will improve with time also. He mentioned that it rarely needs anything done, and I didn't exactly ask what would be done if it needed correction. I'm not sure that I want to know. So far through her orthopedically involved little life, we've managed to avoid surgeries of all kinds, and I'd like to keep it that way. We've moved from hip and leg braces, to just rigid plastic shoe inserts, to now no inserts needed at all!!! The doctor said that we could buy her any supportive insert over the counter. All in all it was a fabulous visit!