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Club foot. For other uses, see Club foot (disambiguation). Club foot or clubfoot, is a term for the medical condition congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV). It is a congenital deformity involving one foot or both. The affected foot appears to have been rotated internally at the ankle.
Clubfoot is a relatively common deformity, affecting about one of every 1,000 newborns. Despite a great deal of study, the exact cause of clubfoot in isolation (not as part of a syndrome or other birth defect) is unknown. There have been some indications of a genetic cause, but these havenât been confirmed. Most children who are born with a clubfoot donât have a family history of the condition. What is known is that if a baby boy has a clubfoot, thereâs a 2.5 percent chance that his next-born sibling will have clubfoot, too.