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Flatfoot
Aka: Flatfoot- Definition
- Foot medial longitudinal arch depression or loss
- Associated conditions
- Heel eversion (valgus)
- Forefoot abduction
- Differential Diagnosis
- Apparent Flatfoot in infants and toddlers under age 2
- Due to fat pad in area of longitudinal arch
- Fat pad atrophies with weight bearing
- Apparent Flatfoot in infants and toddlers under age 2
- Types
- Flexible Flatfoot (Tight heel cord)
- Rigid Flatfoot (Hindfoot arthritis)
- Traumatic Flatfoot (Ruptured posterior tibial tendon)