The deformation of the skirt in children

The deformation of the leg in children occurs very often in the orthopedic experience - there are 100 healthy children with different grade straight legs for 100 health.This diagnosis should not be afraid, you must understand the problem and start solving under the guidance of an experienced specialist.In most cases, the curvature of feet is treated at home using the curvature, exercise therapy, massage and other assistant methods and only surgery required in an advanced stage.

What is valgus and flat deformation?

The valgus foot is a change in the axes of lower extremities inside the foot and the heel region and fingers go beyond.Diagnosis and a defect with the implementation of all the recommendations of the doctor and the correct leg is being built.The lack of treatment causes a lifetime change in the deformation of the leg's flat-valgus and the musalosheletal system.

Signs and signs of a child's valgus deformation

Children's deformation in children 1-1.5 years, diagnosed when the baby begins to go to their own.In a congenital pathological situation, the orthopedics will see the feeling of deviation from the norm in the 2-3 month old life.

Parents can recognize the beginning of the disease, and change the center of the child in the child and mark the child's feet.GAIT can be rough, Kosolapih, straight legs are clearly observed.If you leave the child directly and bring together your knees, 4-5 centimeters occur between their legs.With the development of deformation on both sides, the legs get the contours of the "X".This pathology is compared to the "kissing knees" (see photo).

Incorrect cargo distribution leads to a child's fast fatigue, often prefers passive games, avoids physical activity.Older children often complain about the pain in the lower leg, joints and waist, and the swelling of the feet in the evening.Gradually, fingers and heels are deformed and deviated, the skin in the legs appear in corn.The shoes of a child with such a deformity of the foot are uneven - the inside of the only the only inside is deleted faster.

Anatomical and functional straight legs and their causes

Muscles, ligaments and tendons are constantly relaxing because all newborns have anatomical straight legs.When the child begins to rise and tries to walk, the ligamentaous apparatus is intensified and the right arch of the leg.If this does not happen, orthopedists are talking about the development of functional straight legs.

Reasons for the development of straight legs in young children:

• Results of lack of calcium and other trace elements during pregnancy.One woman needs to comply with all the doctor's recommendations, a healthy lifestyle and eat properly.
• The genetic factor.Pathological inheritance can remain inherited, so it should be focused on the prevention of the child's foot deformity, in the absence of flat feet.
• Transferred riquets.One of the reasons for the pathological formation of the foot is the lack of vitamin D.The bones were softened, the musalosheletet system is crooked and a set of foot is flattened.

• Early setting in the legs.Although the baby likes to trust the legs, don't let him do it before 7-8 months.
• Invalid selected shoes are very free or squeezed, flat soles.For the child, do not buy shoes for "growth" (allowed to be a maximum of supply) because the foot will be in an empty position.Walk barefoot on a flat surface (home on the ground).
• The following diseases can destroy the installation of the legs: cerebral paralysis, pawn, obesity, buttons congenital dislocation.Different foot injuries remain in the gypsum for a long time.

Development rate of pathology

There are four degrees of interest in scamous returns:

1. First degree - baby feet are not more than 15 degrees.This is the initial stage of deformation, with a serious approach to Valgus's treatment, well-corrected and the foot is completely corrected.
2. The second stage is characterized by a 15-20 degree deviation of the foot.Need a little more time and effort for treatment.
3. The third grade, the deviation is 20-30 degrees.Long-term treatment is required (orthopedic shoes, massage, training therapy, physiotherapy).
4. The fourth is the most difficult, curvature of the legs, which is more than 30 degrees.In the absence of complex treatment, the surgical measures of the lower extremities are being made.

Treatment methods

You must pay the necessary attention to the treatment to achieve a continuous positive result.After the appearance of the first results, it must be complicated and long, in no case you should not stop the baby's treatment.The child's normal gait and health depend on the efforts of parents and perseverance.Below are the main types of key extremities mainly fixed the basic adjustment of the deformation.

Drug therapy

Medicines for x-shaped curvature of low extremities are used to eliminate inflammation and pains of joints, but it is impossible to rescue only the disease with the help of drug therapy.Usually a specialist manages drugs.

Orthopedic treatment with the use of devices and choices of shoes for children

As prescribed by a doctor, it is possible to use special orthopedic devices - different fixators, bandages and tires to treat the curvature of the feet.A condition is to wear orthopedic shoes to get a positive result.

When choosing such shoes, you need to pay attention to the following points:

• Shoes should be made of natural, breathtaking materials;
• The child should feel comfortable in him, should not crush or rub anywhere;
• The ankle plays and the heel needs to be a tough, high ass because it is noted in the correct position;
• presence of connectors regulating shoes in the width of the foot;
• A small, wide heel, ideal - "Thomas Heel" (is slightly longer than the outside inside the foot).

Medical physical education and exercise for daily execution of home

Exercises should be carried out daily, some of them have:

• Walk in socks and walk in the heels (first grown, then the ball crown) 5 minutes;
• Sitting on the ground with lying legs to squeeze and open the toes;
• You can offer a child to try to train different smaller items from the ground;
• For example, walking on an uneven surface, can be brought home with river pebbles or take a massage rug;
• walk on the outer edge of the foot;
• To know a wooden roll or a small ball;
• Rotation of the legs from left to right and vice versa.

Massage and physiotherapy

Massage at home, in courses for 2-3 weeks, then a break.This will help strengthen the muscles and release stress, and special skills are not required.The total massage time is 20-30 minutes.You must start with a general massage - when the child is sleeping in the stomach, the hands are stretched along the body, turning to the head.Hand movements should not give baby pain:

• It is easy to shoot the palm along the back, gradually increase;
• A little pinch of witches with palm edge;
• Sort the layers of the skin into the shoulders in the lower back direction;
• Finish by tapping the back massage;
• The feet are easy to bathe by hitting the heba and back;

• To celebrate their legs and femur muscles;
• It ends to hit your feet.
• Rub with the edge of the legs, gradually increases;
• The only number of "Draw" on the thumb of the hand;
• On the one hand, hold the foot with the heel, the second - rub the ankle play;
• It's easy to pull the foot "yourself" for your fingers.

If necessary, doctor physiotherapy, for example: magnetotherapy, acupuncture, electrophorehez, paraffin wraps.This will improve the metabolism in the field of problem and will help you completely absorb the drugs.

Surgical intervention

In case of emergencies, if complex therapy does not result, parents are invited to solve the problem.Modern methods used in surgery allow you to do without wearing a metal structure and plaster.The doctor makes the direction of ligaments and corrects the level of the legs where the feet are located.After adjusting, the recovery period and orthopedic shoes are followed by the binding balance.

Is it possible to treat deformation completely?

With a serious approach to a specialist and treatment, it is very possible to correct the skim.At the same time, the treatment should start until the age of two, and then you can completely get rid of the curvature of the feet until the school.It is very difficult to end the disease with advanced deformity of children and lower extremities over 2, but you can improve the situation.

If you don't treat curvature, what can be the result?

Children will not be corrected by their owners themselves, so the symptoms of pathology cannot be taken into account.Such a deviation of the legs lead to a change in the entire musaloshelet system.There are problems with uneven distributed download, knees and coxofemoral joints, as well as waist.In the child, not only gait, but also turns impossible physical activity (escape, active games), because in these joints causes pain and inflammation.

• Starting from the newborn period, you need to observe the development of your baby's feet, check for injuries, easy massage and gymnastics.In the orthopeneist and its absence in the timely manner - in the surgeon of preventive examinations.

• You should not leave the baby very early on the feet - this is a great burden for the fragile muscles of the legs and joints.When he felt the power, he will try to get up and stick to the support.For the same reason, the use of walking and jumping is not desirable to at least eight months.
• Guitary special attention should be paid - must be correct and must be eligible for age.You have to consult with a specialist with the slightest doubt.
• Children's shoes should be high quality with a small heel and orthopedic insole (we recommend reading: Tracks for children with straight legs).After seven months, when the child began to stand on the feet, it is recommended to connect the legs with a hard rear, so the foot will be corrected in the right position, the muscles and the load of joints will be distributed evenly.If you have a deformation of 1-2 degrees from the parking lot, it is recommended to buy orthopedic shoes in specialized stores and pharmacies.
• Prevention of rickets.The child should spend enough time on the street, because the vitamin D has occurred on the skin under the influence of sunlight.You can give the child vitamin D for the prevention of a dose set by the doctor.You need to provide a full, balanced diet.
• In the spring, the child is useful to ensure barefoot working, small pebbles have a massage effect.In the house, use a massage rug that has various irregularities in a few minutes daily.
• Exercise strengthen the muscularoseletal system and prevents the development of straight legs.If possible, you can write a child for swimming or in the sports section (we recommend reading: How do you recommend reading in the bathroom or a newborn in the pool?).