When there is paralysis of all the muscles acting on the knee, the joint may be so flail-like that the patient is unable to stand without the aid of a crutch, or when weight is put on the limb, it assumes the attitude of genu recurvatum.
In this deformity, which is the converse of genu valgum, the leg joins the thigh at an angle which is open medially.
If the line passes outside the centre of the knee-joint, the condition is one of genu valgum; if inside, it is one of genu varum (Fig.
Backward curving of the upper end of the tibia has been already described as one of the causes of genu recurvatum.
This may be prevented by putting up the limb in the attitude of slight genu varum.
In certain cases, genu valgum or abduction of the leg is present along with a slight degree of flexion.
In course of time the posterior ligament is stretched, and the joint becomes hyper-extended, acquiring the attitude of genu recurvatum.
Treatment is carried out on the same lines as in genu valgum.
Female child with right-sided Genu Valgum, the result of Rickets.
The principal symptoms described by Lucas are scoliosis, talipes valgus, and genu valgum.
Behind the genu the fifth ventricle is cut, and behind that the two pillars of the fornix which here form the anterior boundary of the third ventricle.
Just behind the genu of the internal capsule is a very important region, for here the great motor tract from the Rolandic region of the cortex passes on its way to the crusta and spinal cord.
Such a section will cut the corpus callosum anteriorly at the genu and posteriorly at the splenium, but the body is above the plane of section.
They begin at their antero-ventral part near the genu of the corpus callosum and the anterior pillars of the fornix, and these are the parts which first appear in the lower mammals.
Genu valgum and genu varum are ordinary deformities and quite common in all classes.
A far commoner deformity than the preceding is that known as knock-knee (or Genu Valgum).
The static form of Genu Valgum usually occurs in young adolescents, especially in anaemic nurse-girls, young bricklayers, and young people who have outgrown their strength, yet have to carry heavy weights.
BOW-LEG (Genu Varum), a deformity characterized by separation of the knees when the ankles are in contact.
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