Varus knee is a condition that causes your legs to turn inward. Learn more about what causes it and why early treatment is so important. ... The opposite of varus knee is valgus knee, ...

Varus and Valgus Thrust Study of Knee OA Finds Racial Disparity. African-Americans were less likely to have a varus thrust, but more likely to have valgus thrust than Caucasians says a new study.

Pseudolaxity is false laxity or false looseness of the knee which occurs when the joint has suffered a wear and tear injury which then mimics the looseness that occurs with a severe sprain. Pseudol… ...

Frequency of varus and valgus thrust and factors associated with thrust presence in persons with or at higher risk for knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis & Rheumatism , 2010; DOI: 10.1002/art.27377 ...

Valgus thrust was less frequent: 7.2% without OA and 9.1% with OA. The odds of varus thrust were significantly less for African-Americans compared to Caucasians in both disease subgroups, after ...

PARK CITY, Utah — In a debate about the effect of placing the tibia in varus on total knee arthroplasty rates, which was held at the Joint Arthroplasty Mountain Meeting, Mark W. Pagnano, MD ...

Results Ten athletes suffered ACL injuries during follow-up. There were no significant differences in knee kinematics and KW between those with and without subsequent ACL injuries (Table 1 and ...

Mechanical axis deviation was: +15.6° with articular spacing angle of +2.4° in pathological varus and +1.95° with articular spacing angle of -2.09° in pathological valgus. 15% of children had ...

Patients with a combined valgus deformity and flexion contracture are at high risk for postoperative peroneal nerve injury. References: Hwang YS, et al. Knee Surg Relat Res. 2016;doi:10.5792/ksrr ...

A recent study determined that African-Americans were less likely to have a varus thrust, but more likely to have valgus thrust than Caucasians. Varus thrust is visualized during gait as the ...