M1-L15: Ax LL Ortho - Normal Variants Flashcards
What are the 2 considerations for the paediatric patient?
- Early musculoskeletal growth & development
- Guide to assessment components
What are the 3 practitioner guides to common paediatric orthpaedic conditions?
- Torsional variations
- Normal and minor variants in the feet
- Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
What are 7 factors that affect musculo-skeletal development in children?
- Genetics
- major morphological abnormalities occur in the embryonic period (K2-8)
- Nutrition
- If they do not have enough nutrition during pregnancy
- Drugs
- Hormones
- Relaxin (in the mother –> as a result in baby) –> Contraindication for manipulations
- Mechanical forces
- Prenatal / postnatal
- Positioning & movement
- Injury / trauma
- Intervention
- Surgery / splinting / casting / restraints
- Activity
Need to stretch out –> from flexed position to extended position
What are the 2 mechanical forces in children?
- Create or correct an abnormal biologic situation in a growing organism
- Subject to the stretch creep principle
What are the 2 types mechanical forces in children?
- Prenatal Forces
- Postnatal Forces
What are 3 pre-natal forces?
- abnormal maternal structures / intra-uterine space occupying bodies e.g. multiple foetuses
- Can have a problem with twins, triples..etc where there is not enough space
- oligohydraminos - reduced amount amniotic fluid
- Unable to move around as much
- maternal abnormal tone
- Mum can not stretch out –> less room (eg. immobile- in a wheelchair)
What are 2 post-natal forces?
- Habitual positioning (sleeping and sitting)
- Sleeping
- Baby should sleep in supine (to avoid SIDS- sudden infant death syndrome)
- Baby’s will turn head –> baby will get a flat spot (at the back of the head) - parent might not see it sometimes
- Sitting
- W sitting (not natural)
- Can cause abnormal forces in the child’s join
- Sleeping
- Abnormal loading - muscle imbalance
- Abnormal bony development
- Eg. if not cruising well, pull up to stand
- Can cause abnormal femur development
- Abnormal bony development
What are the 4 types of differential diagnosis?
- Muscular
- Bony
- Neurological
- Other
What are 2 types of muscular conditions in children?
- Talipes
- Sprain, strain, tear
What are 5 types of bony conditions in children?
- Planar & torsional variations
- Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
- Osteochondrodysplasias
- Abnormal development, growth of the bone and cartilage (eg. achondroplasia- short limbed dwarfism)
- Fractures
- (eg. jungle gym or trampolines) –> most common fracture activity. Arms and wrist are most common to fractures in children
- Limb deficiency
- Born without part of body (not just traumatic incident)
What is a type of neurological conditions in children?
Unbalanced tone, e.g. CP
What are 2 types other conditions in children?
- Perthe’s Disease - avascular necrosis of capital femoral epiphysis
- Inflammatory e.g. Osteomyelitis
What specific orthopaedic factors can impact development of movement?
- Activity levels
- BMD
- X-ray result s
- Birth history
- Weight
- Length discrepancy
- Gait
- Growth
- Postures
- Habits
- Beighton score
- Observation
- Height (or of relatives)
- Cultural background
- Squatting in Asian population
- Joint position sense
- Esp. for those with hypermobility
What is an example of observation in photograph?
What are 3 characteristics of growth rate?
- not linear
- spurts occur in different tissues at different times
- Girls end up stabilising/plateauing in growth early than boys do
What are the 6 age standardised measures of growth?
- height
- weight
- head circumference
- skeletal ossification
- growth plate fusion
- cellular age
Why is height not always a suitable age standardised measure of growth?
Not very useful for certain conditions (unless they have specific chart of the condition- do not use the normative chart)
Why is head circumference an important age standardised measure of growth? What sorts of children have a large head circumference?
Why? What shorts of children will have large circumference? –> CFS build up called hydrocephalus –> need to see a paediatrician –> which is common in spinal bifida (flaccid paralysis and hydrocephalus) or short limbed dwarfism (relative to body)
Why is growth plate fusion an important age standardised measure of growth? What is the complication?
Fracture through the growth plate
- Stops growing on one side of plate and keeps growing on other side
- Asymmetrical bony development
What are the 3 changes in shape and posture?
- Proportional changes
- Genetic characteristics
- Biomechanical implications
What are 3 characteristics of proportional changes in shape and posture?
- head v body size in and infant v adult
- limb length, trunk length
- growth of organs and soft tissues
Why does it take a a while for a baby to lift their head?
Takes a while for babies to lift up their own head
Why does head need to be quite large when born?
- Need a decent sized brain when you are born
- Once an adult (will be 1/9 of body)
- In dwarfism –> Will have a ratio that is more similar to a child
What is a genetic characteristic in changes in shape and posture?
physique and overall body structure
- Body weight –> related to activity levels and sugar levels
What are 2 biomechanical implications of changes in shape and posture?
- COG in infants = T12, adults = L5- As you grow taller, COG gets lower = more stable
- Normal skeletal growth patterns
- Medial longitudinal arch: infant fat pad
- LL: bow legs (genu varum) –> knock knees (genu valgum)
What does the development of of spinal curves look like?
What are 2 types of abnomal spinal curves?
- Scoliosis
- Kyphosis
What are 2 characteristics of goniometry and plurimetry in AROM and PROM?
- Joint specific protocols
- Very good reliability
What is the purpose of a muscle strength test (MMT)?
Muscle strength & isolation
What is the neurodevelopmental assessment and biomechanical assessment?
Plays a particular role in LL
Who can treat children with orthopaedic conditions impacting movement?
- Physio
- Walking aids (eg. wheelchairs)
- Orthopaedic surgeon (paeds)
- Paediatricians
- OT (esp. upper limb)
- Social worker
- Orthotists
- Dentists
- TMJ
- Teeth reconstruction
- Osteopathy
What are 2 other names for flexible pes planus?
- Hypermobile flat foot
- Flexible pes valgus
What is pes planus?
Physiotherapist must assess to distinguish flexible flat foot from pathological flatfoot deformities due to structural & neuromuscular deformities
What is okay for pes planus and what is not? Why?
Flexible flat foot= okay
Ridgit flat foot = possible blocks –> Gait abnormalities
How do you tension the plantar fascia?
extension of the great toe
What can be done to assess pes plantar? How can it be changed for young and older children?
Tip-toe test
- Can hold on to support (look at feet not balance)
- Young children - get children to reach up –> look at the feet
- Older children - get them to tip toe
What is the treatment for pes planus?
- There is no evidence that flexible flatfoot produces dysfunction
- The only indication for treatment of flexible flatfoot in a child is when there is pain or severe deformity
- Corrective shoes / splints do not affect the natural history of flexible pes planus
- Get better shoes –> heel should be vertical (for support)
- Heel piece and ball piece –> cut out middle –> not good
- Better to get oval shaped (eg. netball shoes) –> more support for flat feet
What is the only indication for treatment in flexible flatfoot in children?
The only indication for treatment of flexible flatfoot in a child is when there is pain or severe deformity.
What is the mistake with Congenital Vertical Talus?
DO NOT MISTAKE THIS FOR ‘FLAT FOOT’
- Very uncommon
When is Congenital Vertical Talus seen?
May be seen in association of other congenital abnormalities
- Eg.. Hip dislocations
What is the treatment for Congenital Vertical Talus?
Surgical correction is required to re-align this congenital anomaly.
What is Congenital Vertical Talus? What are the 5 features of it?
- Hindfoot is in equinus (plantarflexion)
- Talus is vertical
- Talo-navicular joint is subluxed
- Forefoot is abducted & dorsiflexed
- “Rocker bottom” foot
What are the 2 ROM in Congenital Vertical Talus?
- Talo-horizontal angle approaches 90°
- Tibio-talar angle approaches 180˚
What is seen in an AP radiograph for Congenital Vertical Talus?
Increased talocalcaneal angle due to the equinovalgus angulation of the os calcis.