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The management of deformities of the foot in children with spina bifida. 1976

T W Smith, and T Duckworth

A simple photographic technique is described which measures the weight-bearing and non-weight-bearing areas of the feet in the standing child. The child stands on a rectangular sheet of thick glass which is set into the floor. Beneath the floor is a cellar, from which the soles of the feet may be observed and photographed. A transparent grid placed over the photographic print enables the weight-bearing and non-weight-bearing areas of the foot to be measured, and thus to express the weight-bearing areas as a percentage of the total area of the sole of the foot. The procedure was used to assess 55 spina-bifida children who had had surgical correction of deformities of the feet. The findings are discussed.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D009985	Orthopedics	A specialty which utilizes medical, surgical, and physical methods to treat and correct deformities, diseases, and injuries to the skeletal system, its articulations, and associated structures.
D010781	Photography	Method of making images on a sensitized surface by exposure to light or other radiant energy.	Photographies
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D005528	Foot	The distal extremity of the leg in vertebrates, consisting of the tarsus (ANKLE); METATARSUS; phalanges; and the soft tissues surrounding these bones.	Feet
D005532	Foot Deformities, Congenital	Alterations or deviations from normal shape or size which result in a disfigurement of the foot occurring at or before birth.	Congenital Foot Deformities,Congenital Foot Deformity,Deformities, Congenital Foot,Deformity, Congenital Foot,Foot Deformity, Congenital
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D016135	Spinal Dysraphism	Congenital defects of closure of one or more vertebral arches, which may be associated with malformations of the spinal cord, nerve roots, congenital fibrous bands, lipomas, and congenital cysts. These malformations range from mild (e.g., SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA) to severe, including rachischisis where there is complete failure of neural tube and spinal cord fusion, resulting in exposure of the spinal cord at the surface. Spinal dysraphism includes all forms of spina bifida. The open form is called SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA and the closed form is SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p34)	Rachischisis,Spina Bifida,Status Dysraphicus,Cleft Spine,Open Spine,Schistorrhachis,Spinal Dysraphia,Bifida, Spina,Cleft Spines,Dysraphia, Spinal,Dysraphicus, Status,Dysraphism, Spinal,Dysraphisms, Spinal,Open Spines,Rachischises,Spina Bifidas,Spinal Dysraphias,Spinal Dysraphisms,Spine, Cleft,Spine, Open