On the physiological valgus of the knee

Abstract

The knee joint, as a number of anatomists' observations show, is already normally the apex to the outside of an open obtuse angle formed by joining the femur and tibia bones. This obtuse angle is what we mean by the name of genu valgum physiologicum. Many clinicians forget this physiological phenomenon; others, with Lange and Spitzy at the head, believe that the X-foot is formed only in the 2nd year, considering the characteristic for the 1st year of life the O-foot, which is the result of adaptation to the ovoid shape of the uterine cavity.

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