They were advised to go to an organisation called Holly Innocent Children where she was diagnosed with
knock-knees. Now she awaits an operation and after which the doctors say she will be able to walk normally without falling.
* Measure the intermalleolar distance in the knock-kneed with the recurvatum corrected and the knees lightly pressed together to qauntitate
knock-knees.
When a person with
knock-knees is standing with their knees together, there's a large gap between their feet.
Among the once-common disorders that have been largely consigned to history are
knock-knees and curvature of the spine.
Have you ever seen anyone with
knock-knees from the back before?
My four-year-old daughter has
knock-knees. She is really active and I am worried that this can affect her ability to exercise in later life.
She was taken to dancing lessons in an effort to cure her
knock-knees. She started at the Royal Ballet School at the age of 13.
Dr McIlwraith, who is the director of the Orthopaedic Research Center at CSU's College of Veterinary Medicine and President-elect of the American Association of Equine Practitioners, found that some degree of carpal valgus (
knock-knees) can be a good thing - an opinion that flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
A small number of children with limb pain are found to have poor foot mechanics--often weak, flat feet with
knock-knees. For them, the leg discomfort is often eased with corrective shoes.
Symptoms of rickets, which leads to softening of the bones, fits and slows a child's walking development, include bowed legs in toddlers and
knock-knees in older children.
Such a vulnerable system can be knocked off balance very easily by intrinsic factors such as excessive bow legs or
knock-knees; people whose joints move more than they should, particularly where the knee can bend backwards (hyperextension); people who have a slightly stiff hip; and those whose feet go flat when running (pronation), according to King.
Noway will mywee tot with her
knock-knees, pot belly and chubby thighs ever be strolling about in that kind of gear in 10 years.
Knock-knees. This inward curving of the legs is a normal part of development if it occurs before the age of five or six, and usually requires no treatment unless it persists after the age of 10.
Minor leg and foot problems children are born with include "pigeon" toes, splay foot, bowlegs,
knock-knees and flat feet.
During the film, Bertie talks about his strict father, a cruel nanny who favoured his elder brother, being forced to write with his right hand although he was left-handed and enduring a painful treatment for his
knock-knees. The young prince had to wear painful metal splints to straighten out his legs.
