While toe-walking can aid individuals with specific muscle or neurological conditions, scientific evidence indicates it's less efficient and potentially harmful for healthy adults. This gait disrupts ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgery was linked with higher rates of toe-walking resolution vs. casting and physical therapy or orthoses.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Amber Wicker, CPNP-BC, pediatric nurse practitioner with USA Health Pediatric Orthopaedics joins us on Studio 10 to discuss toe-walking in children.

Background: Idiopathic Toe Walking (ITW) is present in children older than 3 years of age still walking on their toes without signs of neurological, orthopaedic or psychiatric diseases. ITW has been ...

Treatments for Idiopathic Toe Walking Based on Child's Age and Severity of Gait Abnormality Most children develop a normal walking pattern, or gait, by age 2. And while some toe walking—where a child ...

Idiopathic toe walking (ITW) is a gait deviation observed predominantly in children over three years old who walk on their toes in the absence of identifiable neurological or musculoskeletal disorders ...

Most children develop a normal walking pattern, or gait, by age 2. And while some toe walking—where a child primarily walks on the front of the foot or toes, never touching the heel to the ground—is ...