Hammer toe in cerebral paralysis.

Hallux valgus and hammer toe.

An elderly woman was observed after hip surgery to start a rehabilitation program; physical examination revealed a lush hallux valgus, however no complaints were reported. Hallux valgus is a frequent forefoot deformity; global prevalence is 35% in those over 65 years-old.1 Women are more affected; deformity is normally attributed to ill-fitting shoes.1 Imbalance of the extrinsic/intrinsic foot ...

Contractions of the Fingers and Hammer-Toe

Correction of hammer toe with an extended release of the metatarsophalangeal joint.

Between March 1995 and January 2000 we reviewed retrospectively 84 patients with hammer-toe deformity (99 feet; 179 toes) who had undergone metatarsophalangeal soft-tissue release and proximal interphalangeal arthroplasty. The median follow-up was 28 months. Patients were assessed by the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Scores (AOFAS) and reviewed by independent assessors. The median...

Neuromusclescheletic Illness in Movement Issues for Cerebral Paralysis Detection System

The present project has a social focus, which pretends develop a system (hardware and software) capable to achieve a valuation of the neuromusclescheletic children’s march, which is cerebral paralysis. This valuation will be done by several images, representing the march of the studied subject in a graphic way, to be compared with a normal march patron that will be evaluated by an expert who wi...

Occam's Hammer

We establish a generic theoretical tool to construct probabilistic bounds for algorithms where the output is a subset of objects from an initial pool of candidates (or more generally, a probability distribution on said pool). This general device, dubbed “Occam’s hammer”, acts as a meta layer when a probabilistic bound is already known on the objects of the pool taken individually, and aims at c...