| Category | Orthopaedic Care |
Genu Valgum
An abnormality where the lower extremities turn inward, causing the appearance of the knees to be touching while the ankles remain apart.
Besides deformity, knee pain is the most common complaint.
Other associated features may include an out-toed gait and lateral patellar subluxation.
Genu valgum may appear worse clinically than radiographically.
metabolic derangements.
2. X-ray of both hips to the knee is also required.
Metabolic bone diseases such as rickets, skeletal dysplasias, or trauma (physealinjury)
Physiologic knock-knee is expected to spontaneously resolve and therefore managed conservatively with observation.
Surgical options to manage genu valgum include hemiepiphysiodesis and osteotomy. Hemiepiphysiodesisis used if the patient is skeletally immature while osteotomy can be performed when immediate correction of the valgus deformity is desired or if the patient is skeletally mature.
