Overview
Look For
- The height of the foot arch - high, normal or flattened.
Pes Cavus
High-arched foot.
Significance
- Pes cavus is strongly associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, though may also occur in several other conditions.
Causes of Pes Cavus
Congenital
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth
- Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies
- Freidrich's ataxia
- Cerebral palsy
- Spina bifida
Acquired
- Upper motor neuron lesion - stroke, tumour, trauma
- Lower motor neuron lesion - common peroneal nerve palsy
- Malunion of fracture
- Contracture
Pes Planus
Flat foot.
Causes of Pes Planus
- Physiologic - limb rotation, obesity
- Hypotonia
- Trauma - peroneal nerve damage
- Bony fusion - talocalcaneal, talonavicular, calcaneonavicular
- Ligamentous laxity - Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan syndrome
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