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A child that has just started to walk has a broad aligned gait whereby the upper arms are kept in abduction in order to keep balance. The knees are not flexed and the toes reach the ground first and not the heel. At 2 years of age there is a normal gait. During the gait cycle knee flexion begins and the lateral part of the heel reaches the ground first.
Neurological problems causing an abnormal gait have been left out of this discussion
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Visser, J.D. (2017). Abnormal Gait. In: Pediatric Orthopedics . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40178-2_16
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