The authors have evaluated the foot deformity in 147 children with cerebral palsy hospitalized in crippled children hospital roentogenographically and clinically.
1) Of 269 feet of 147 patient of all types of cerebral palsy, the deformity most frequently observed was equinovalgus, which was seen in 59per cent.
Normal feet were only in 17per cent.
2) Equinovarus was seen especially in the group of spastic hemiplegia: 40per cent. It was thought to be the result of less weight bearing by affected limbs.
3) Equinovalgus was seen in the group of para-and quadriplegia. It appeared in about 70per cent of feet in each age grous.
4) In roentogenological mesurement, deformed feet revealed the change in MTR angle and talo-1st metatarsal angle.
