Flatfoot symptoms and signs

Early symptoms of flatfoot include medial ankle pain, long-term increase to stand or walk, rest to reduce pain swelling of joints outside to adequate scaphoid tubercle especially struggling, eight feet were shaped Achilles tendon. Powder dye footprint check paper and proved that the footprint longitudinal arch part of the disappearance of vacancies, the central plantar wider, and sometimes with the Department are also wider, X-ray examination, arch disappeared, calcaneus and talus longitudinal vertical axis angle, and 12 after the age of the bridge shows that the formation of bone.

Flatfoot clinical signs, generally can be divided into three phases.

Early: In the line to stand up and come after a long time, the feet are tired, aching discomfort, foot fever, foot reflexology center and edema can occur. In addition to sick low-arch, foot eversion, no obvious change in foot posture. Foot activity, there is mild varus restrictions. Boat from the joints may have mild tenderness. The above symptoms, one would completely disappear by the rest.

Medium-term; also known as period cramps. Not the initial treatment period will be developed to spasm, is mainly expressed in Charcot-Marie-muscle cramps, foot was everted, outreach, on significant restricted activity, the inside of a boat from the Department of subsidence due to longitudinal arch in introversion, was prominent deformity. Increase at this time of pain, walking and standing can not be lasting. Even longer-term rest, often can not be restored.

Late: also called the tetany phase. Fibular muscle spasm has not been treated long-time development of spastic muscle rigidity, adequate size of the length of ligament between bone, ankylosis occurred, so that at a fixed valgus foot, outreach. In spite of this deformity anesthesia for long-term rest or not to make it back to normal. However, to alleviate pain in patients with or without pain, can do a short walk, while running, jumping or long distances, is extremely difficult. Inelastic heavy walking gait and can not absorb the shock force, the knee, hip, waist weight-bearing joints, such as traumatic happened a long time will have pain and arthritis.