The following examples are all designed to help prevent knock-knee contractures. From Wordnik.com. [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference
Note: Children with brain damage sometimes develop a knock-knee way of standing or walking. From Wordnik.com. [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference
· In children with spasticity or muscle imbalance, this may increase the risk of developing knock-knee contractures. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Well, I see so many knock-knee, box-ankle, spindly-shank, flat nose chillun, when I was growin 'up, dat when I come to choose de filly to fold my colts, I picks one dat them mistakes wasn't so lakly to appear in. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Laxity of the ligaments and knock-knee are predisposing factors. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
There may be knock-knee on the one side and bow-knee on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
In oblique fracture a gliding displacement is liable to occur and cause bow - or knock-knee. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
If allowed to unite with the condyle displaced, the articular surface is oblique and bow - or knock-knee results. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
LOT was marked in whitewashed knock-knee letters on the brew house; LOT on that part of the main building which had been so long shut up. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
LOT 1 was marked in whitewashed knock-knee letters on the brew house; LOT 2 on that part of the main building which had been so long shut up. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
# -- These deformities are common in children; are nearly always bilateral and symmetrical, and may be associated with knock-knee or bow-knee. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
Bones divided in the course of an operation, for example in osteotomy for knock-knee, or wedge-shaped resection for bow-leg, are repaired by the same process as fractures. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
# -- Flat-foot is sometimes met with in rickety children, in association with knock-knee or curvature of the bones of the leg, and is treated on the same lines as other rickety deformities. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
It has also been produced in attempting forcibly to rectify knock-knee and other deformities in this region, and in making traction on the limb to correct deformities following recovery from tuberculous disease of the knee. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
Although an ungainly deformity, it is much less frequently the source of complaint than knock-knee, because it scarcely interferes with locomotion -- as a matter of fact, the subjects of bow-knee, although short in stature, are unusually sturdy on their legs. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
(Not only does the donkey take Luis where he wants to go, but by keeping his legs apart, it helps prevent knock-knee contractures. From Wordnik.com. [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference
This helps prevent knock-knee contractures. From Wordnik.com. [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference
In unilateral knock-knee, the affected limb is. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
knock-knee contractures, see below. From Wordnik.com. [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference
(1) seat for child with spasticity who has knock-knee contractures (one of many possibilities) (2) strap for keeping legs apart (one around each leg and tied through holes in sides of seat). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Scoliosis, lordosis, knock-knee, flat foot, pigeon chest, albuminuria, cold and cyanosed extremities, are the rule rather than the exception. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
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