{"id":3740,"date":"2022-05-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/bowedlegsgenuvarum\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T14:26:29","slug":"bowedlegsgenuvarum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/paediatricorthopaedics\/bowedlegsgenuvarum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowed legs\/Genu Varum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span><strong>Information<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normal variant seen in babies and toddlers<br>Almost all babies and some toddlers have bow legs to some degree \u2013 it is considered normal up until about the age of about two at which point it should have started to resolve.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M.A. &amp; M-J.S. 27-06-24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs\" data-active-tab=\"0\"><ul class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-links\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Referral Guidelines<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Primary Care Management<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p>Refer directly to Paediatric Orthopaedics for further investigation (physiotherapy cannot correct bowed legs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Associated pain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Unilateral or asymmetric. Causes include Blounts disease, infection or after a growth plate injury<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Suspicion of underlying metabolic disease (think rickets). This would usually be bilateral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; With ankles together is gap between knees greater than 8cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Resources and Links<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/Normal-Lower-Limb-Variants-in-Childhood-RHCYP-V2.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Normal-Lower-Limb-Variants-in-Childhood-RHCYP-V2.0.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Normal variant seen in babies and toddlersAlmost all babies and some toddlers have bow legs to some degree &ndash; it is considered normal up until about the age of about two at which point it should have started to resolve.&nbsp; M.A. &amp; M-J.S. 27-06-24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4268,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[753],"class_list":["post-3740","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-https-apps-testing28-scot-nhs-uk-refhelp-guidelines-bowedlegsgenuvarum"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/paediatric\/paediatricorthopaedics\/https-apps-testing28-scot-nhs-uk-refhelp-guidelines-bowedlegsgenuvarum\/\" rel=\"tag\">Bowed legs\/Genu Varum<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Information Normal variant seen in babies and toddlersAlmost all babies and some toddlers have bow legs to some degree &ndash; it is considered normal up until about the age of about two at which point it should have started to resolve.&nbsp; M.A. &amp; M-J.S. 27-06-24","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22302,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3740\/revisions\/22302"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}