METHOD OF DETERMINATION OF DEGREE OF METATARSUS LATUS Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A61B5/103 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention concerns medicine, namely to traumatology, orthopedy, registration and analysis of the parametres describing contact of the patient's footsteps with a horizontal surface at maintenance of a two-basic vertical pose is spent. Pressure upon areas of the second and the third metatarsal bones for what surveyed rises on socks is thus registered so that the maximum pressure was necessary on area metatarsal bones, and the load between the left and right foot has been distributed fifty-fifty, then pressure upon all area of contact of a foot with a horizontal surface is registered. If the relation of pressure upon areas of the second and the third metatarsal bones to pressure upon all foot makes 0.22-0.28 the first degree of a metatarsus latus is defined, 0.29-0.38 - the second degree of a metatarsus latus, if 0.39 and above - the third degree of a metatarsus latus is defined.

EFFECT: way is harmless, exact and fast in carrying out.

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