Helping Little Feet Walk
Stride & Strive helps children born with clubfoot and other foot and leg conditions take their first steps while also training the doctors around the world who make it possible.
Your gift trains doctors, funds research, and helps children walk.
Our Story
Every year, about 200,000 babies are born with clubfoot. With the right care, nearly every one of them can grow up walking, running, and playing. But most are born in places where that care is hard to reach. Stride & Strive was founded to change that by training doctors worldwide, funding research that leads to gentler treatments, and helping children with clubfoot, vertical talus, congenital knee dislocations and other conditions take their first steps.
Leading it all is Dr. Matthew Dobbs, a world-renowned pediatric orthopedic surgeon trusted by families from all 50 states and over 100 countries. Learn how one surgeon's life's work is becoming a movement, and how you can be part of it.
Our Mission
Stride & Strive turns one surgeon's life's work into a movement that helps children everywhere walk. We're an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit, built to follow the need: training doctors, funding research and helping children wherever they are.
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We are focused on training the next generation of pediatric orthopedic care providers around the world.
By training others, we are able to reach more children and expand our reach to more clinics around the world.
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Why are some babies born with clubfoot? Dr. Dobbs’s research is helping answer that question, and the answers are improving care and outcomes. His work has uncovered genetic causes of clubfoot and vertical talus, leading to better treatments for the toughest cases, a new brace that’s easier for kids to wear, and care plans tailored to each child.
Every discovery means gentler treatments, fewer surgeries and less time in a brace, so kids can get back to being kids.
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By removing the burden of musculoskeletal disease by helping more children walk.
We are focused on helping children be able to play, go to school and grow up independently.
Give a Child The Chance To Walk, Run and Play
Picture a little one taking their very first steps. Now imagine you helped make that happen. That's what your gift does. It trains doctors, funds better care, and gets kids up and moving.