[Diseases of the patella caused by clothing (author's transl)]

Fashionable clothing involving tight-fitting trousers and high heels forces human to adopt an attitude leading to diseases at the point of insertion of the tendons and of the cartilage of the patella. It is emphasized that malformations of the femoropatellar joint may possibly be caused by exogenous influences and may, therefore, be successfully treated by externally applied methods during the growth period.