Travis Tracy understands that they are not the only one in their situation. With a daughter who is recovering from a hip surgery and still undergoing treatment to fix a dislocated hip, he says that he is not the only one. Travis says, “While hip dysplasia may be a term that most parents are not even familiar with, we certainly do now. After some research we found that there are many others that have become familiar with it too.”
SpicaCasts.com was released by Travis and Sheena Tracy last month in an effort to bring awareness up about what spica casts and hip dysplasia are. “You will find that hip dysplasia makes up 75% of all disabilities that children are born with”, Tracy said.
Tracy went on to talk about how he only received a small two page pamphlet from the doctors office on what a spica cast was. He had almost no idea what to expect when he found out his daughter was going to have to have surgery to fix her hip condition. “I was definitely not prepared to see my eight month old daughter in a cast that covered the majority of her body. The pamphlet we received showed several different types and unfortunately our daughter had the type that covered both legs all the way to her ankles, and then all the way up to her chest”, says Tracy.
When asked about hip purpose for his new website he says this, “We tried to find more information online about hip dysplasia and spica casts when we were preparing to go through it. There just wasn’t much out there, we think that our website will hopefully help those parents that may be preparing to begin the process. Our daughter still has not completed all the treatment that she needs, but we just want to get the word out to other parents who may have been in the same situation of feeling alone.”
For more information about hip dysplasia or spica casts, visit SpicaCasts.com.
