Can orthopedic shoes be used to correct leg shape?

O-shaped legs and X-shaped legs are more common in daily life. Especially children with beautiful small faces, but a pair of O-shaped legs or X-shaped legs will be particularly abrupt, which not only affects the appearance, but also causes certain effects on the growth of the child. Influence.

Some traditional habits believe that children can straighten their legs if they are not straight, but this will affect the child’s hip bone development. Some parents choose to use orthopedic shoes to correct the shape of their legs. In fact, most children’s legs are not straight, and the degree of curvature reaches its peak around the age of 4, and then gradually improves, approaching the level of an adult at around 8 years of age. If the leg shape is not good, it is not necessary to use corrective shoes. Whether to use corrective shoes is more to listen to the doctor’s opinion. Orthopedic shoes are generally used for the correction of severe flat feet and valgus hind feet.

Orthopedic shoes have three major components, including a heel cup that can control the degree of hindfoot valgus and reduce the probability of scaphoid protruding; according to the degree of flatness of the foot and the thickness of the plantar soft tissue, the support and corrective force that are closest to their needs are given The heel locks the corrective insole; there is also a dual-density sole that reduces the chance of flat foot arch collapse and hind foot valgus. These three functional characteristics make Aijiaojian orthopedic shoes different from ordinary children’s shoes. After wearing, they can more effectively straighten the heel and ankle, straighten the biological force line of the ankle, knee, and hip joint, so that the child can reduce the joints when walking. The chance of strain, relieves muscle fatigue and pain caused by severe flat feet sequelae.

Of course, with some scientific exercises and a gradual wear schedule, correcting severe flat feet can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

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