Open AccessMitigating clinician and community concerns about children's flatfeet, intoed gait, or knock‐knees
Author(s) -
Evans Angela
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of foot and ankle research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.763
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1757-1146
DOI - 10.1186/1757-1146-8-s2-o13
Subject(s) - medicine , gait , physical therapy , physical medicine and rehabilitation , orthopedic surgery , rehabilitation , surgery
Background Foot and lower limb postures are a common parental concern, and present frequently to a range of clinicians. Referral of children with flatfeet, intoed gait, or knockknees that is within normal developmental limits has been reported as approximating 40%. This represents a substantial and unnecessary cost to any health care system. The dilemma for caring clinicians is that each of these common presentations can be frankly pathological, so erring on the side of caution is understandable.