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New papers revisit, rekindle flexible flatfoot controversy

“Other considerations” spark debate

In January 2010, when LER first covered the controversy, Australian podiatrist and researcher Angela Evans, PhD, had recently published a paper in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association suggesting that children whose feet were flatter than expected, but asymptomatic, should be monitored rather than automatically treated with orthoses.

By Cary Groner

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Posted in Pediatric Clinical News, 2011, July | Tagged , , | 2 Comments