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Hallux valgus (HV), which affects approximately 19% of the global population, often requires frequent weight-bearing X-rays for assessment, which can be costly and logistically challenging in resource-limited healthcare settings due to the scarcity of horizontal foot imaging systems. Existing X-ray models often struggle to balance image fidelity, skeletal consistency, and physical constraints, particularly in diffusion-based methods that lack skeletal guidance. We propose the skeletal-constrained conditional diffusion model (SCCDM) along with two evaluation metrics, keypoint confidence-completeness (KCC) and keypoint structural consistency (KSC), to assess the anatomical plausibility of generated X-rays based on keypoint confidence and structural consistency. SCCDM incorporates multi-scale feature extraction and attention mechanisms, improving the structural similarity index by 5.72% (0.794) and the peak signal-to-noise ratio by 18.34% (21.40 dB). When combined with KCC and KSC, this method achieves average scores of 0.85 and 0.84, respectively, facilitating the clinical assessment of HV deformity and enabling more accurate surgical intervention. 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