Apparent vs True Leg Length

[florinalexandruro]

some simple thing are rarely explained - thank you!

[akashmazumdar]

beautifuly explained and in the simplest way. tank you Dr.

[brianw]

This patient has a good example of pectus extravacum. Where you can see the deformity of the anterior thoracic wall in which the sternum and rib cage grow abnormally. This produces a caved-in or sunken appearance of the chest.

[careerextendrs]

The distance from the ASIS to the malleolus is not any way shape or form a measure of a leg length. What if one ilium is in flexion or extension. This is possibly the biggest area were western medicine has failed the public. We have thousands of people waking around with an undiagnosed leg length inequality, living in pain. We have the technology to actually measure, but rely on silly tests like this. because we keep teaching this to students. We keep passing this stuff along with the best of intentions, and people keep suffering because of it.

[mukulsingal]

I thought true length was calculated by two measurements, the ASIS TO Tibial condyle and then tibial xondyle to medial malleolus

[hamizahezan]

When do we use xiphisternum as reference point instead of umbilicus?

[flexnut]

This gives no definitive answer if legs are different lengths. If there is a hip hike (pelvis tilt) your measurements will be different. Horrible test.

[pradeepkumaryadav]

If my true and apparent leg length is normal but I feel like shortening then what happen

[optimumperformance]

This is not how you would assess leg length.

[ladieesc]

this is incorrect. you don't use the umbilicus. you use the ASIS of the pelvis