A treatise on orthopedic surgery . Weak feet, showing the inwardrotation of the legs when the ab-ducted feet are placed side by side,indicating an attitude of persistentabduction. Weak feet, arches not depressed. strain upon the muscles is disproportionate to their strength, andit is increased when the ligaments begin to give way understrain, allowing the bones to occupy an abnormal relation to oneanother. It is evident, therefore, that the individual in whosefoot the arch is well-formed and whose ligaments are firm, willsuffer from the symptoms of strain long before the arch has 712 OBTHOPEDI
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . Weak feet, showing the inwardrotation of the legs when the ab-ducted feet are placed side by side,indicating an attitude of persistentabduction. Weak feet, arches not depressed. strain upon the muscles is disproportionate to their strength, andit is increased when the ligaments begin to give way understrain, allowing the bones to occupy an abnormal relation to oneanother. It is evident, therefore, that the individual in whosefoot the arch is well-formed and whose ligaments are firm, willsuffer from the symptoms of strain long before the arch has 712 OBTHOPEDIC SUBGEEY. been depressed; also, that the lateral inward bulging, character-istic of abduction, must be very great before the arch is com-pletely flattened. In this type the prominent deformity islateral displacement (valgus). On the other hand, if the indi-vidual has inherited a low arch, or if, as the result of weaknessin early life, the arch has been depressed or has never formed,accommodative changes in the joints will have ta
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