Prevention for Child Flatfoot

Generated due to a congenital flatfoot with two acquired, congenital flatfoot deformity into are because of ligament laxity talus, acquired, and do not have adequate bone abnormalities, often overweight, bad habit of walking, standing or weight-bearing long-term excessive or activity too soon after illness and other reasons, to enable the foot to relax the muscles and ligaments to shrink, and finally the formation of flatfoot, flatfoot required to determine whether or not after the age of 2, Prevention for flatfoot in children include:

1, should start training foot muscles, barefoot on the beach or the grass from going up, toe flexion, foot to the outer edge of the walk will help the muscles and ligaments of foot lateral exercise.

2, immersion foot by hot water, can promote blood circulation of foot and toes crawling round billiards, to exercise the foot muscles.

3, to avoid standing too long or the load, usually when standing up to change position.

4, wear orthopedic shoes, the soles than the medial half of the 2 lateral - 3 centimeters thick, half of the extension of the medial heel shoes to foot center and lateral than 0.5 centimeters thick, it will give the weight-bearing foot inside the line by fate relocation.

5, the baby tight Achilles tendon can be corrected by the handed, so that children with supine, extended knee, the foot gradually, can relax the Achilles tendon, each 2 minutes.

Applying the above correction of orthopedic shoes and the handed, about 40-50% could return to normal children; there is progress, of individual severe cases, surgery may be considered.