“…Gentle manipulation serves this need in a harmless and inexpensive way." Durbin (1956) considers that the majority of children with knock knee recover with little or no treatment, but an over anxious mother is not always satisfied with mere reassurance and is happier if some treatment is supplied, which in any event can only do good. Brittain (1948), however, basing his opinion on the treatmen t of 8,000 cases over a 15-year period, although against irons and knock knee braces because of their harmful psychological effect, nevertheless favoured wedging of the shoes which was carried out in every case, with night splints in the majority.…”