A treatise on orthopedic surgery . w-les legs is almost always combined with general rhachitic distor-tions of the lower extremity, most often with knock-knee. Thesein turn are caused by marked distortion of the femora, whichmay be bent forward and outward above, and inward at theirlower extremities, corkscrew deformity. In anterior bow-leg the tibiae are usually flattened from side to side, curved in-ward or outward arid bent forward, the projecting crests pre-senting sharply beneath the skin. Sjmaptoms.—The effect of the anterior bowing is to throw theweight forward upon the foot; thus the h
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . w-les legs is almost always combined with general rhachitic distor-tions of the lower extremity, most often with knock-knee. Thesein turn are caused by marked distortion of the femora, whichmay be bent forward and outward above, and inward at theirlower extremities, corkscrew deformity. In anterior bow-leg the tibiae are usually flattened from side to side, curved in-ward or outward arid bent forward, the projecting crests pre-senting sharply beneath the skin. Sjmaptoms.—The effect of the anterior bowing is to throw theweight forward upon the foot; thus the heels appear ab-normally long and prominent, and the patient seems to sink for-ward at each step (Fig. 415). The knees are usually somewhatflexed, partly as the effect of knock-knee, with which the de-formity is usually combined, and the feet are, as a rule, has been stated, anterior bowing is almost never seen as anindependent deformity unless it is a relic of the more generaldistortion which has been outgrown. Fig. Long anterior curvature of the tibia and 417.
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