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knock-knee
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knock-knee

Condition in which the knees are close together and the feet widely separated. Infants are usually knock-kneed during their first few years of walking, but newborn babies are usually bow-legged.

Knock-knees (Latin genu valgum) and bow-legs (genu varum) can result from nutritional deficiency diseases, such as rickets, now rare in Western countries, and in adults from rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis in the knee, or from fractures of the bones about the knee.
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Co-morbidities due to early type 2 diabetes such as heart disease, early kidney disease, stoke, hypertension, skeletal deformities genu valgum, stress fractures, Charcot arthropathy, increase incidence of cancer, staetohepatitis (fatty liver), and others will result in a society of young disabled individuals.
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Frequency of Responses for Kinematic Variables Rating Variable Patient Inadequate Normal Excessive Knee flexion at A 18 24 12 initial contact B 4 33 17 C 35 14 5 Knee flexion at A 32 18 4 mid-stance B 6 44 4 C 45 4 5 Knee flexion at A 45 9 5 heel-off B 17 33 4 C 45 7 2 Knee flexion at A 25 25 4 toe-off B 5 43 6 C 42 11 1 Genu valgum A 4 1 49 B (a) 1 36 16 C 44 8 2 (a) One rater did not rate this patient for this variable.
Interrater reliability of videotaped observational gait-analysis ... by McGarvey, Charles L. / Physical Therapy
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