Genu varum ? Maybe

It’s subtle, do you see it?

While standing in line at Copper to make a few turns with my wife, I snapped this shot of the gentleman in front of me. Can you see the tibial varum present bilaterally? We see this often in the office and it puts people on the outside edge of their ski. This makes it difficult to initiate a turn with the inside edge and makes transitions occur very quickly as they are already on the outside edge. It can also create patellofemoral tracking problems.

The idea is to create enough motion of their first ray to help them to get the head down to the ground (or the ski). Sometimes, building up underneath the medial side of the foot and hallux (varus wedge or Morton’s toe extension) if they don’t have that range of motion available to them can work as well.

#Tibialvarum #Genuvarum #Skiing #FootProblem #Varuspost #varuswedge