Pes cavus and idiopathic scoliosis from school screening
Hanene Belabbassi, Assia Haddouche, Abdelkader Ouadah and Houria Kaced Scoliosis 2013, 8(Suppl 2):O6
Recenly I concluded and published a study linking abnormal pronation patterns to abnormal frontal plane deviations in the thoracic spine: (n=25, 10-18 YOs)
Inclusion Criteria:
All subjects diagnosed as Ideopathic Scoliosis
All subjects have thoracic curves
Procedure:
The following null hypothesis was constructed and tested using the One Sample t-Test (Analyse-it + General, version 1.73) on the raw date.
Hoa:
There is no relationship between the most pronated foot and the direction of the thoracic curve
Results: One-tailed P value = 0.0415
Conclusion: At confidence level = 99%, the null hypothesis Hoa was rejected
Discussion:
If the abnormal (gravity drive) pronation pattern was Rt > Lf, I found a right thoracic curve.
If the abnormal pronation pattern was Lf > Rt, I found a left thoracic curve.
However, not all gravity driven pronators develop scoliotic curves (thoracic).
The development of scoliosis appears to be a multifactorial event, abnormal pronation being one of the determinants.
Professor Rothbart
Rothbart BA 2013.
Preliminary Study: Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Linked to Abnormal Foot Pronation.
Podiatry Review
Vol 72, No 2:8-11.
"If the abnormal (gravity drive) pronation pattern was Rt > Lf, I found a right thoracic curve.
If the abnormal pronation pattern was Lf > Rt, I found a left thoracic curve.
The development of scoliosis appears to be a multifactorial event, abnormal pronation being one of the determinants."