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How Knock Knees are corrected in youngsters? - Dr. Ajay Rao

Knock knees or genu valgum is the deformity of the knees wherein there is inward bending at the knee joint and the ankles are separated more than normal. Knock knees are physiological. So when you are a child, knock knees are a normal developing process. When a child is 2 -3 years of age, the patient or the child will gave knock knees or slight genu valgum, where the knees will be touching each other and the angle between the knee and the ankle is increased. When he child grows to about 5 – 7 years of age, this knock knees or genu valgum gets corrected spontaneously and the child will have a normal angulation of the knee. Above 7 years if the child still has knock knees, or genu valgum then the child has to be evaluated for the cause of the knock knees. the cause of the knock knees, which is not physiological, can be either trauma to the growing ends of the bone, Vitamin D deficiency which presents as rickets, and infection at the growing ends of the bone, any skeletal dysplasias can cause knock knees. The treatment in young adults on how much knock knees or g he has got. If the intermalleolar distance he has got, that is the distance between the inside of the ankle when the patient stands and if it is causing symptoms then the patient requires treatment of knock knees. Intermalleolar distance of usually 5 cms can be left alone and nothing is needed. In case the intermalleolar distance causes difficulty or it is more than 8 cm, then it can undergo surgical correction. This surgery involves breaking of the bone or osteotomy, which can be done at the lower end of the femur or the upper end of the bone, which is the tibia, and we can correct this knock knees, to the normal angles. Unfortunately in adults there are no further surgical procedures to correct his knock knees.