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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/miracle-woman-born-backwards-feet-4388848

Not the most reliable news organ but quite a remarkable story - if true....

 

Looking at the photos, the feet do not look "backwards", just in extreme plantarflexion - the calcaneus appears in a normal position. It looks like she is walking on the dorsum of the foot. Perhaps just extreme TEV?

 

This was in one of the more reputable newspapers in Tanzania too. It's hard to see her knees, but it almost looks like it's a tibial torsion issue, to the extreme.

 

This appears to be a case of Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) which describes a range of conditions where there are severe joint contractures in more than one site (see her hands in both pictures). Her feet are indeed in severe TEV as you can see the dorsal creases of the IPJs (she is probably walking on her toenails) You can also see in the picture her calcaneus which (as has been mentioned previously) is in the correct position.

I came across this once in an old lady whose parents for religious reasons refused her surgery when young. In her case she had Talipes Calcaneo-Valgus which gave her an extremely 'rocker bottom' foot. Her hands were also in a similar severely flexed deformity.