Variations and deformities of lower limbs involving rotation in the transverse plane are associated with many clinical problems, ranging from harmless in-toing in children to disabling degenerative osteoarthritis of the knee in adult patients. While the bone alterations located in the transverse plane are difficult to be assessed, the frontal and sagittal deformities can be easily assessed , for instance, with the conventional radiographies. In this context, among the most available methods for the leg rotational study, there is not any clinical or image procedure which is more accurate, practical or with low cost. In order to solve this problem, the authors present a new device to indirect clinical standard of the leg torsion angle in adults and children. In this study, 40 lower limbs from human cadavers were assessed and analyzed.
Tibia; Anthropometry; Gait
