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Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® 4/2010

01-04-2010 | Symposium: Recent Advances in Foot and Ankle Surgery

The Classic: A Study of the Weak Foot, with Reference to its Causes, its Diagnosis, and its Cure; with an Analysis of a Thousand Cases of So-Called Flat-Foot

Author: Royal Whitman, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 4/2010

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Abstract

This Classic article is a reprint of the original work by Royal Whitman, A Study of the Weak Foot, with Reference to its Causes, its Diagnosis, and its Cure; with an Analysis of a Thousand Cases of So-Called Flat-Foot. An accompanying biographical sketch on Royal Whitman, MD, is available at DOI 10.​1007/​s11999-009-1129-7. The Classic Article is © 1896 by the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc. and is reprinted with permission from Whitman R. A study of the weak foot, with reference to its causes, its diagnosis, and its cure; with an analysis of a thousand cases of so-called flat-foot. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1896;s-1-8:42–77.
Footnotes
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The attitude of adduction is the strong attitude, because the weak part of the foot is protected by the muscles. The typical strong deformity is the club-foot, of which pain is not a symptom, and in which the weight of the body may be made use of to correct and prevent deformity. The attitude of abduction is the weak attitude of muscular relaxation, in which the weak part of the foot is subjected to overstrain. The typical weak deformity is the flat-foot, in which the strain and weight of use cause pain and increase the deformity.
 
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New York Medical Journal, October 11, 1890.
 
Metadata
Title
The Classic: A Study of the Weak Foot, with Reference to its Causes, its Diagnosis, and its Cure; with an Analysis of a Thousand Cases of So-Called Flat-Foot
Author
Royal Whitman, MD
Publication date
01-04-2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 4/2010
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-009-1130-1

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