Lynn Staheli

Lynn Taylor Staheli is an American pediatric orthopedist. He was a founding editor of the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics and founder of Global HELP, an organization that provides free medical information in developing countries.

Staheli's research on developmental variations during childhood has shown that conditions such as flexible flatfeet, intoeing and bowlegs are normal variations that do not require treatment. This information helped catalyze the decline of unnecessary, ineffective and unpleasant treatments, such as corrective shoes, night splints, braces and shoes. In 1991, he was quoted in the New York Times as stating that "people do better when they're free, and the foot does better when it's free."