Abstract:for flat foot are performed in young children. The congenital flat foot should be looked on as a foot which became arrested in the earlier stages of ontogenetic development and failed to grow as old as the individual himself. The hypermobility of the flat foot in an adult due to ligamentous laxity cor¬ responds to similar hypermobility of the foot in a young child and in an adult ape. The generally accepted possibility of the development of an idiopathic flat foot from an originally normal one is doubtful. The… Show more
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