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Flat feet insoles cure

fashionable women prefer high heels risk with age to become permanent female patients orthopedists. Shoes without heels is also a direct path to the flat. Pledge health legs – a stable heel height from two to four centimeters. To prevent a flat, lifelong learning must be properly fitting footwear. And you should start with the first steps.

agree that to treat flatfoot without surgical intervention is possible only in early childhood, not strictly true. Indeed, fully corrected the defect conservative methods can only be under the age of five to seven years. But to stop the progressive development of the disease may be at any age. To do this throughout life will have to wear special orthopedic insoles, said Infox.

Quality orthopedic insoles are usually made of genuine leather. In the area of longitudinal and transverse arch in the insole is a special “pads”. These “pads” helped footsteps, loss of natural features of spring, the spring during walking. Thanks orthopedic foot insoles are a uniform load of body weight. As a result, will stabilize the blood circulation and reduces pain in feet, accompanying flat.

In the early stages of flat you can use the standard insoles that are sold in pharmacies. They are usually picked up by shoe size.

With a strong deformation of brake produce individual insoles. To do this, first make a plaster cast of the patient’s legs, and then make individual stocks.

Adults insoles recommended to change once a year. During this time, if all the recommendations of the orthopaedist, the foot can change shape and move closer to the norm.

Children orthopedic insoles are recommended from the moment they begin to walk: it at this time is the formation of the foot. Special insoles for kids perform not only therapeutic but also preventive function. Update stelechki accounts every three or four months, since the children’s feet grow quickly and changes formu.Vypravit completely flat to be five to seven years, even if the baby had an inherited change in the foot.

comments Sergey Nikitin, traumatologist orthopedic highest category, PhD:

«Among the factors contributing to the development of static flatfoot, play an important role wearing close and irrational shoes, shoes high heels (over 4 cm) or on a flat thick-soled, so-called Wedge-heeled. When wearing high heels is an increase and shift the center of gravity closer to the body axis, which together with the increase of the angle in the ankle joint leads to increased load (overload) on the forefoot and a solid set foot in relation to the axis of the tibia ».

For those who worry about the health of your feet, you obzatelno wear comfortable shoes with a properly selected or custom made insoles and supinator.