Flat feet are often treated with disdain, sometimes not at all considering it a disease. But it is it, like no other, that makes a person addicted. Trampled foot, twisted toes, protruding bone on the big toe. Farewell dress shoes!
Yes, and besides them, it is difficult to have flat feet in everyday life. Well, how can the mothers of the family go shopping, stand at the stove for a long time, meet the children from school? The woman quickly gets tired, becomes irritable. And you won't envy old ladies either. Doctors advise you to walk more, but how much can you walk on sore legs? However, it is not only about aesthetic canons.
How to identify flat feet with a piece of paper and a pencil
The first sign of flat feet can be called a bone on the big toe. In youth, it is not very noticeable, but with age it begins to bulge more strongly. Yes, and the disease begins to remind of itself with severe swelling and sore legs. There is another problem — Not all shoes fit. That's when they turn to an orthopedist.
Most often, the doctor diagnoses transverse flat feet with deformity of the first metatarsophalangeal joint of the foot. But you can put it earlier, which will allow you to start treatment on time. In addition, there is an easy way to determine this disease yourself.
How to identify flat feet yourself:
• smear the cream on the feet and stand them on a clean sheet of paper;
• circle the footprint with a pencil;
• draw a line from the thumb to the heel;
• draw a perpendicular through this line to the narrowest part of the heel to make a right angle.
If the perpendicular reaches the middle, there is flat feet. If not more than a third — foot normal.
Why does the teacher's big toe bone stick out
Treatment of flat feet depends on which of the main types it belongs to.
Congenital. It occurs extremely rarely due to the pathology of the development of the baby in the womb and, as a rule, is accompanied by a violation of the structure of the skeleton. Such flat feet should be treated by a pediatric orthopedist-traumatologist.
Rachitic. Improper development of the skeleton provokes vitamin D deficiency. Rachitic flat feet is one of the signs of rickets.
To prevent rickets you need:
• daily walks in the fresh air;
• do morning exercises;
• take fish oil or introduce seafood into your diet.
Static. This type of flatfoot is the most extensive. Often it is a retribution for the love of model shoes, the narrow toe of which disrupts the circulation of blood in the foot, and the incorrect distribution of weight causes its deformation.
Overweight people are also at risk of such flat feet, which is also often accompanied by severe pain in the foot.
Slim people from birth may also be at risk.
Also, static flat feet threaten those who, due to their professional activities, have to stand on their feet all day (doctors, hairdressers, waiters).
Traumatic. Appears as a result of fractures. Most often — ankles.
Paralytic foot. It is distinguished by its flatness, which appears due to paralysis of the legs caused by various infections, such as polio or neuroinfection.
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