Prevalence of Hallux Valgus in Normal Individuals

Krishna B. Gawande, Sanket Mungikar, Rinkle Hotwani*, Sneha Ingle, Chaitanya A. Kulkarni

Ravi Nair Physiotherapy College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

To find out the prevalence of hallux valgus in normal individuals. The lateral deviation of the big toe at the first metatarsophalangeal joint is also known as Hallux valgus and is frequently common in women’s. The primary function of the foot is to control the body weight and to serve as a part of lever for its proper functioning. Basically body weight and the strain falls along with the center of the foot and maintain the balance there by surrounding muscular activity. By any chance if this normal synchronization is disturbed in the performance of their function, in spite of accommodative power of nature to disease and deformity. Cross sectional study 200 male and female with or without foot pain were included. 38.59% and 31.46% of male and female have hallux valgus of right foot out of total samples. 45.61% and 39.15% of male and female have hallux valgus of left foot out of total samples. The result of the study concluded that the prevalence of hallux valgus deformity was greater in an older-aged group than the young-aged group and among which showed left foot was more commonly affected in both males and females. It also showed that it does not affect functional activity in normal young individual.

Keywords:

Metatarsophalangeal joint, Body mass index, Hallux valgus