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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2012 Jun;26(3):345–368. doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2012.05.009

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The traditional approach proposed by Root et al. focused on identifying and correcting foot malalignment. Ideal foot alignment was defined as “subtalar neutral”, the position in which the calcaneal bisection (blue line) is parallel with the bisection of the lower third of the leg (red line), and 2) the plane passing through all five metatarsal heads (green line) is perpendicular to the calcaneal bisection (blue line). Based on the relationship of the rearfoot and forefoot in subtalar neutral, chief malalignments include rearfoot varus and valgus (top row), forefoot varus and valgus (bottom row) are identified. Adapted from [76].