Flatfoot

What is flatfoot? How to diagnose and treatment of flatfoot? What preventive measures flatfoot exist? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.

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Flatfoot

Flatfoot can be congenital, as a result of muscle underdevelopment,
Absence of small-terror bones, other malformations of development. Meet
Not often (approximately 11% of all congenital foot deformations). But in general
hereditary factor plays a big role. If father or mother suffer
flatfoot, you need to prepare in advance that the same «history» Will be
child.

Promote foot deformations can rickets. With severe
hypovitaminosis D bone becomes soft, weaken bone-muscular
Apparatus. Flatfoot in this case is often combined with other
bone changes characteristic of rickets.

Poliomyelitis thanks to vaccination has become a rare culprit
Flatcase - Stop deforms more often as a result of paralysis
Tolebra muscles.

At an older age of flatfoot
may be caused by injuries - fracture of bones of the front stop,
But most often there is a result of incorrectly intersecting fractures of ankle.

The most common type of flatfoot - static,
he arises in children, because their muscles are still weak and sometimes
Do not stand load. Main force supporting the arch
On normal height, - Supinators muscles. They start from bones
Shin, their tendons go back from the inner ankle. If these
Muscles do not work well, the foot of the foot is lowered, the bones of the foot
And shins are shifted. As a result, the foot is lengthened and expands
In the middle part, and the heel deviates outward.

Treatment of flatopy

Treat it with sight a simple disease is quite difficult. Besides,
It is unlikely that the moment comes when a person will be able to sigh lightweight:
Well, I cured! Flatfoot is given once and for life.
With the help of special events, you can only tighten the disease,
do not give her significantly affect everyday weekdays.

With congenital flatfoot, massage is needed, in difficult cases
The feet of the child is fixed in the right position with special plaster
bandages. In preschool age, the main treatment must be
in strengthening the stopper of the stop with massage and gymnastics, and the use
Shell-supinators are appointed at this age.

Schoolchildren, on the contrary, is of particular importance to the selection
good orthopedic shoes with the layout of the arch and raising internal
edges of the heel. There is an important point here: the baby's foot is growing rapidly,
so shoes need to be able to change. Little Error in Design
The shoe may not help, but, on the contrary, to lead to pathology.

In adolescents in severe
Flat races accompanied by sharp pains, treatment begins
with blending gypsum bandages. After the disappearance of pain
Appointed orthopedic shoes, massage, gymnastics. And only if all
This has not led to anything, operation is possible.

Gymnastics. Should become everyday and familiar occupation for
Patient with flatfoot. Do it better more than once, and 2-3 times a day.

Massage. Has a good auxiliary effect, improves
blood supply and tones the muscles tightening the arch. Masite
Shin - on the back of the inside of the bones to the foot - and herself
Stop - from the heel to the bones of the fingers. Takes - stroking,
Rubbing, kneading. Self-massage needs to be stroked
the base of the palm of the elevation of the first finger, the arch of the foot, the rear
and the inner surface of the shin.

With pronounced flatfoot, the teenager will need to think
On the choice of a profession, not associated with a long walking, standing. And here
As for the army, according to the latest orders of the Ministry of Defense,
Contraindication for the call is only a 3rd degree flatfoot
with arthrosis of the joints of the foot.

Diagnosis of flatfoot

It should be borne in mind that up to 4 years to put the child diagnosis
«flatfoot» Just frivolously. Kids on legs have
physiological fat pillow, and if you make a footprint
(Plantography), then you can see the formation that
flatfoot is not really. Another reason why
mistakenly diagnose - x-shaped legs. Stop in this case seems
flat, but if the leg put strictly vertically, then the imprint
It turns out normal. That is why if the diagnosis does not put orthopedist, but,
Say, surgeon or physical physical education doctor, the disease may be
detected where there is no.

But since the years since 5-6, parents themselves
Completely can notice any misunderstanding.
Conference, deflection of stops outside or inward when walking or standing
may indicate flatfoot. Survey the baby's boots -
Do they wear out on the inside of the sole and heel. In more
older aged child will express his complaints by which you can
suspect the flatfoot, - when walking, legs are quickly tired,
The pain in the calf muscles appears, on the sole in the field of the foot of the foot.
Sometimes the pain spreads out of the sole through the ankle to the hip, creating
Picture of Ishias. With pronounced flatfoot stops his form,
What has already been mentioned above.

Flatfoot means the complete loss of all stem functions
feet. You can compare it with a two-wheel drive: with good
versators and worn. In the first bump on the road «come back» only
easy swaying, and in the second any hollow - already decent
Shake. Here is such a shake when walking the flatfoot gives the leg,
Tazobed joint. All this can lead to a deplorable outcome -
Arthrosis.

Prevention flatfoot

But, of course, the best struggle with the flatfoot - its prevention. It is in strengthening muscles supporting the arch.

The front stop of the foot is almost impossible to strengthen the massage
or gymnastics, only the right selection of shoes will help - with a wide
weeke, hard back and heel that does not overload the fingers. At
initial degrees flatfoot children better not to wear sandals
with open heels, soft slippers, boots. Better boots are better
with solid soles, small heel and lacing.

Be sure to follow the mass of the child's body so that it is not higher
Norma. Weakened children's muscles together with high weight give a big
the likelihood that the arch will be omitted.

Natural body strengthening helps strengthen the foot.
It is useful to swim to the child - better than a crawl, but you can just flounder
At the edge of the pool - it is important that the beats. Useful to walk
barefoot - in the sand (not hot) or pebbles (not acute). Run
on the hilly and hillocks, walk on the log.

Physical education classes are definitely useful and children with flatfoot.
Recommendations for restrictions here are very relative. For example,
ski skiing, running skates or weightlifting give excessive
Load on the Stop Arch. On the other hand, they are not contraindicated if
No severe clinical manifestations of disease - pains, edema. So, almost
All skaters in time are formed flatfoot, which does not interfere
they seek high sports results. At the famous jumper
In the height of Vladimir Yashchenko, there was a pronounced flatfoot. However, its own
Lack he drew in a plus - at the time the jump corrected
The deformed muscles of the foot, which raised his jumping. Physical
Load In any case, develops the muscles of the legs and strengthens the arch of the foot.

Exercises

In the initial position sitting with straightened legs:

Status sitting on a chair: