[Correction of the pes equinus component in congenital clubfoot by freeing the triceps surae muscles and by tibiocalcaneal distraction].

20 children, average age 9 months, were treated of 27 inborn deformed feet by a new method. It consists in a wide release of m. triceps surae and its tendon, posterior lateral and posterior medial release and lengthening of the muscle with the help of a personal distraction apparatus, leaving the tendon untouched.