July 6th, 2012 
admin By Dr. Axel Rohrmann
A healthy 9 year old girl was referred to me for “walking on the top of her feet”. Interesting as this sounds, I thought there had to be an error.
The patient, parents and a sibling sister were met at the reception and shown to my clinic room. Observation of gait showed that all gait determinants were within normal limits. During introductions and history it was revealed that the 11 year old sister also used to walk on the “top of her feet” until around age 6 when she spontaneously stopped. Assessing the feet it could be seen that there are mild skin changes on the dorsum of the inter-phalangeal joints and the metatarsal-phalangial joints. Read more »
