This causes your knees to turn outward. The opposite of varus knee is valgus knee, which makes some people knock-kneed. It happens when your tibia turns outward in relation to your femur.

Frequency of varus and valgus thrust and factors associated with thrust presence in persons with or at higher risk for knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis & Rheumatism , 2010; DOI: 10.1002/art.27377 ...

A significantly higher proportion of patients with patellofemoral instability had valgus alignment. SAN FRANCISCO — Results presented here showed varus or valgus alignment may be a nonmodifiable ...

Examination of the patient should include an evaluation of whether the legs are varus (bowlegged) or valgus (knock-kneed), a physical finding that usually signifies marked malalignment.

African-Americans were less likely to have a varus thrust, but more likely to have valgus thrust than Caucasians says a new study. African-Americans were less likely to have a varus thrust ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between self-reported instability and the passive varus-valgus mechanical behaviour of the medial osteoarthritis knee. Methods ...

Varus knee, also known as genu varum, is a condition that affects the alignment of bones in a person’s leg. If you have this condition, the larger bone in your calf, the tibia, is misaligned ...