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Triple prevention of congenital dislocation of the hip (CDH) consists of screening and earliest treatment in newborns, universal wide diapering in all presumably healthy hips, and repeated screening and early treatment in infants. Preventive activity proved to be decisively stimulated by introduction of "baby packages," containing equipment for wide diapering, which are being distributed to every newborn free of charge. Since the introduction of baby packages, prevalence of CDH dropped from 1.3 to 0.7% despite incomplete distribution. Likewise, incidence of surgery for CDH decreased sevenfold. more...

Triple prevention of the congenital dysplasia of the hip comprises detection in newborns, general wrapping in abduction, and detection in infants. It starts already in obstetric institutions and is legalized as an obligatory form of health protection of the population. Baby-packages for prophylactic wrapping with the thigh in abduction and flexion, are provided for each newborn free of change and distributed in the maternity wards. Already in prenatal consultations and later in the maternity ward mothers are taught how to apply wrapping in abduction to normal children and how to use therapeutic pants in children suspect of a pathologic hip. more...

Applying a diaper and baby clothing without changing the naturally flexed leg requires education of mothers and nurses. Retaining the flexed position which is present from the very beginning of postnatal life, markedly reduces the incidence of click sign. A program on neonatal diapering, clothing, and general care, reduced the incidence of congenital dislocation of the hip in 3 to 7 months old infants in a sample population of 200,000. more...