The Harris and Beath footprint is an inexpensive, noninvasive method of recording
foot/ground pressure patterns to aid clinical diagnosis, decision making, and
follow-up. Studies of normal children and skeletally mature individuals have
identified the wide variations found in normal feet, a knowledge of which is
fundamental to the interpretation of the footprint in the clinical situation.
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