The algorithmic approach to pediatric flexible pes planovalgus.

The author presents an alternative approach to the pediatric flexible pes planovalgus patient. Hopefully, this algorithm can serve as a guide and not as a rule. It is meant to serve the foot and ankle surgeon as a means of eliminating the arbitrary assignment of a flatfoot to procedures. Instead, the algorithm assigns procedures to a type of flatfoot. The specific procedures listed are a guide to reduce our failures while continually improving our successes.