title: The management of deformities of the foot in children with spina bifida.
abstract: A simple photographic technique is described which measures the weight-bearing and non-weight-bearing areas of the feet in the standing child. The child stands on a rectangular sheet of thick glass which is set into the floor. Beneath the floor is a cellar, from which the soles of the feet may be observed and photographed. A transparent grid placed over the photographic print enables the weight-bearing and non-weight-bearing areas of the foot to be measured, and thus to express the weight-bearing areas as a percentage of the total area of the sole of the foot. The procedure was used to assess 55 spina-bifida children who had had surgical correction of deformities of the feet. The findings are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005528:Foot / Q000601:surgery; D005532:Foot Deformities, Congenital; D006801:Humans; D009985:Orthopedics; D010781:Photography; D016135:Spinal Dysraphism / Q000150:complications*