The pediatric/adolescent patient with the deformity metatarsus adductus, represents an entirely different set of circumstances from a surgical standpoint than does the adult patient. ln dealing with a pediatric deformity there exists many more surgical variables. An individual with metatarsus adductus as a primary deformity will have greater expectations from treatment than will the patient tha...

We applied aluminum hinged shoes (AHSs) to the club foot-associated contracted feet of 11 Thoroughbred yearlings to examine the effects of the shoes on the shape of the hoof and third phalanx (P III). After 3 months of AHS use, the size of the affected hooves increased significantly, reaching the approximate size of the healthy contralateral hooves with respect to the maximum lateral width of t...

A discussion of the essential deformity in calcaneo-valgus feet develops a theme originally put forward in 1961 on the relapsed club foot (Evans 1961). Whereas in the normal foot the medial and lateral columns are about equal in length, in talipes equino-varus the lateral column is longer and in calcaneo-valgus shorter than the medial column. The suggestion is that in the treatment of both defo...

Club foot – or, more correctly, congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV) 1 – describes a specific foot deformity of midfoot cavus, forefoot adduction, hindfoot varus and equinus. The World Health Organisation has estimated that 100’000 children are born with CTEV, with 80% occurring in the developing world. 2 Ignacio Ponseti died on October 18 2009 aged 95. He was a pioneer in paediatric ort...

We conducted chromosomal mapping of the pma gene that is a causative gene in the peroneal muscular atrophy mouse, which shows a club foot at birth and unusual gait due to a dropped foot in the adult. Linkage analyses using backcross progeny revealed a significant linkage between the pma gene and three microsatellite markers, D5Mit263 at 73 cM, D5Mit141 and D5Mit97 at 74 cM on Chr 5. The gene or...