Club Foot PatientPlus

Description: Properly known as talipes equinovarus, club foot is a deformity of the foot involving also the entire lower leg. It is either positional (normal foot that has been held in a deformed position in the uterus) or fixed.1 * Fixed talipes equinovarus may be congenital (usually an isolated abnormality) or teratological (associated with a neuromuscular disorder, e.g. myodysplasia, arthrogryposis multiplex congenita or as part of a syndrome complex).
* The cause of congenital clubfoot is unknown and most infants who have clubfoot have no identifiable cause.
* Associations with club foot include teratogenic agents, oligohydramnios and congenital constriction rings.
* There is an autosomal recessive pattern of clubfoot inheritance; genetic associations also include diastrophic dwarfism and some syndromes involving chromosomal deletion.