title: [Foot pain in the elderly].
abstract: The paper draws attention to the problem of the aging foot characterized by a complex of degenerative changes and other accompanying diseases--multimorbidity. Affections of the foot rank fourth in the examinations carried out in outpatients. A series of 100 randomly selected patients above the age of 60 who presented with affections of the foot for orthopedic examination was analyzed. In order to establish optimal preventive and therapeutic measures, correlation between foot pain and foot deformity was assessed and the most frequent etiologies of the painful foot and the most frequent localizations of maximal pain in the foot were determined. In relation to pain the author emphasizes the necessity to set up the present functional diagnosis and to apply a complex approach considering not only diseases which conventionally fall under the care of the orthopedist. The latter issue is particularly important in the setting of policlinics with narrow specialties where synthesis of the established findings is sometimes lacking. Frequent affections of the foot encountered in orthopedic practice require a complex analysis of the problem.
authors.affiliation: Ortopedická klinika LFUK, Bratislava.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vojtassák
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology
vernacular_title: Bolesti nôh v starsom veku.