How to correct a baby's pigeon-toed feet? At what age can a baby's pigeon-toed feet be corrected?

How to correct the baby's pigeon-toed feet is a puzzle for many people. Will pigeon-toed feet affect people's healthy life? Here are some problems about children's pigeon-toed feet. Early correction and prevention is the best way. Please see the detailed introduction.

How to correct baby's pigeon feet

For children who may develop "splayed feet", early prevention is necessary. The main prevention methods are:

① Walk in rhythm

Babies who walk with their feet turned inward will not have a very regular walking rhythm, so when teaching babies to walk, you must control their walking rhythm. Adults can count the commands and let the children step according to the commands. Or the parents can walk in front according to the rhythm, and the baby follows closely behind. Practice several times a day, about half an hour each time, and the baby will be able to form a good gait.

②Straight line practice

Draw a straight line on the ground, or find a straight edge of a flower bed for your baby to practice walking. Let your baby's toes and heels step on the straight line, and walk back and forth, from slow to fast, from big to small. This conscious training can help your baby form the habit of walking in a straight line, so that the soles of the feet will not deviate to the left or right at will, and naturally they will not turn their toes inward.

③Straight line running

Draw two straight lines, the distance between them is slightly wider than the baby's feet, and let the baby walk between the two straight lines, making sure the baby does not step on the straight lines, so that the baby can be trained to walk in the most correct way. This practice method can be turned into a game. If the baby can walk the entire straight line, parents can give the baby appropriate praise and rewards.

How old can a baby's bowlegs be corrected?

Many parents bring their children to the hospital for consultation or to solve the problem of their children walking with their feet turned inward or outward. They always feel that their children are different from other children and their walking posture is not good. They are worried that it will affect their children's growth and development, and hope to solve it early so as not to miss the best time for treatment.

In fact, parents do not need to panic, because most of these deformities are normal variations and can gradually disappear.

Generally speaking, the shaping effect of the uterus on the fetus will cause contracture of the soft tissue on the outside of the hip joint and internal rotation of the tibia and foot. As the contracture of the soft tissue of the hip joint disappears, the anteversion angle of the femur largely determines the internal rotation of the hip joint. The anteversion angle of the femur is about 30 degrees at birth, which decreases to about 10 degrees after maturity. Similarly, the tibia of a newborn is extremely internally rotated at birth, but as it matures, the tibia gradually rotates outward, and by the age of 8, it changes from 5 degrees of internal rotation to 10 degrees of external rotation.

If the "inward-facing" or "outward-facing" toe appears obvious, you can go to the hospital to ask a specialist to check and make a clear diagnosis.

First of all, we should consider that this is caused by neurological diseases, skeletal dysplasia, or loose joints and ligaments or even metabolic diseases. Lower limb rotational deformity requires regular follow-up to evaluate the progression of the deformity. If there is unilateral onset, a history of progression, pain and other manifestations, it is necessary to highly suspect the possibility of other diseases.

But before a clear diagnosis of other diseases, the best treatment for "inward-turned toes" or "outward-turned toes" is observation. The current mainstream view is that rotational deformities rarely require treatment and usually disappear on their own. Only those persistent deformities that do not disappear with growth require further examination.

When treatment is really needed, the only way is surgical correction. For the progressively worsening femoral anterior rotation deformity, the surgical indication is: age over 8 years old, and there is functional impairment or obvious aesthetic impact caused by it.

There are no reports showing that treatments such as braces and orthopedic shoes have definite effects on tibial and femoral rotational deformities. These methods may even cause discomfort to children and affect their daily lives.

How to correct children's splayed feet

You need perseverance to correct your splayed feet. It is not easy to develop a good habit, and it is even harder to correct an old habit. To correct your splayed feet, you need to fight against your walking habits that have lasted for several years, more than ten years, or even decades. You cannot do it without perseverance. So the above exercises should be done every day. In addition to practicing, you should also consciously walk in the correct way when walking. Only by paying attention at all times can you develop the correct gait into a habit and make your walking posture more healthy.

1. First, you need to strengthen the strength of the legs, arches and ankle joints. For example: standing still with your feet together and pushing upward, standing still or running with your legs raised high (control the amplitude and speed yourself).

2. Master the correct technical movements of running, and under the guidance of a teacher, repeatedly practice the correct technical movements so that the movements can reach dynamic standard.

3. Students who have inward or outward splayed feet due to the influence of living environment should pay attention to developing the corresponding muscles, such as doing some exercises of internal and external rotation of thighs and doing exercises of internal and external rotation of ankles by hooking the instep.

4. For those who have outward-turned feet due to habitual movements, you should consciously correct the outward-turned feet habit in your daily life; for those who have inward-turned feet, you can participate in basic dance training. For example, when doing leg stretching exercises: one foot supports the other foot and the other foot is stretched straight on a bar about 80 cm high to stretch the legs forward, requiring the toe of the stretched leg to rotate outward.