Modern concepts in the treatment of hallux valgusSir, We read the article in the August 2005 issue by Robinson and Limbers 1 entitled 'Modern concepts in the treatment of hallux valgus'.It highlights the pathogenesis of hallux valgus as described by Stephens, 2 in which they describe the response of the medial and lateral heads of flexor hallucis brevis (FHB).However, the diagram shown in Figure 1 does not show the two distinct heads of FHB as described in the text and as shown in recognised orthopaedic and anatomical texts, [3][4][5][6][7] but rather it shows a single muscle belly and tendon unit with a single insertion bypassing the sesamoids.We feel this error may lead to confusion for those reading the article.
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