Recently, some people on the Internet are talking about a woman who, in order to correct her O-shaped leg, took a wrench every day after surgery and screwed each screw inside the bone 3 times, screwing 7 mm in each time. 3 months later, the nails grew together with the meat and bone and then pulled out. So, is this method of correcting O-shaped legs scientific or not? What about the hole in the leg?
Poor sitting and standing posture can cause O-shaped legs When people stand on both lower limbs, the heels together, double knee joints if not able to lean together, the existence of distance, the formation of O-shaped, medically known as knee inversion deformity, commonly known as O-shaped legs, also known as rotund legs. It is generally believed that calcium deficiency and genetics are the intrinsic basis of O-shaped leg formation, but the more direct reason is related to poor walking posture, standing posture, squatting stance, excessive use of pediatric walkers, premature or improper standing of children, obesity and overweight. This imbalance of the medial and lateral knee joint will pull the tibia and femur (mainly the tibia) of the lower leg to bend medially at an angle and form an inversion of the knee. There is also a portion of O-leg associated with skeletal trauma.
Mild O-leg does not require treatment. There are 3 degrees of O-leg. When both lower limbs stand with feet together, the distance between the two knee joints is less than 3 cm, 3~10 cm, and more than 10 cm, which are classified as mild, moderate, and severe. Mild O-leg does not affect the life and work of both knees, and can be treated without treatment if not particularly needed. Moderate O-leg affects the aesthetics, and also brings some influence to life, work and employment.
Patients need to correct bad habits and can also be treated with conservative treatment, minimally invasive surgery treatment or open surgery treatment. In people with severe O-leg, due to the inversion of the knee joint, the weight of the body is concentrated on the medial joint surface of the knee joint. The excessive pressure and friction will lead to wear of the medial cartilage surface of the knee joint and collapse of the tibial plateau secondary to osteoarthritis. Patients with severe O-leg should be treated with minimally invasive surgery or open surgery.
For pediatric patients with O-shaped legs, conservative non-surgical treatment should be taken, with attention to vitamin D supplementation, sun exposure, prevention of rickets, and avoiding learning to stand and walk too early, so that the lower limbs do not bend outward due to the weight of the body. In minors, since the epiphysis has not yet closed, conservative treatment should be taken to correct the internal and external balance of the knee joint, such as orthopedic braces, exercise therapy such as yoga, local massage, acupuncture or small acupuncture.
For adults whose epiphyses have closed, or those with severe O-shaped legs that seriously affect their lives, in addition to the above conservative treatment methods, minimally invasive surgery combined with external fixed braces can be used for slow correction or open surgery for immediate correction.
The female net friend’s treatment is effective. Minimally invasive surgery combined with external fixation brace slow correction is a minimally invasive small incision osteotomy of the deformed fracture, closed for external fixation brace nail fixation, and then by twisting the extension nut of the external fixation brace every day, with the help of fracture subperiosteal or bone scab osteogenesis principle, slowly lengthen the inner side of the calf bone, so that the bone open to achieve the purpose of orthopedic. While slowly correcting, the soft tissues such as the vascular nerves and skin muscles of the medial calf are also stretched and lengthened. Since too much lengthening at once can lead to damage to the vascular nerves, for safety reasons, the method of rotating the screw three times a day, that is, every eight hours, is generally adopted. Depending on the deformity of the O-leg, it can be calculated how many days of lengthening will result in correcting the O-leg. Because of the simplicity of this method, the patient or his family can adjust it by themselves under the guidance of the doctor, and can be discharged from the hospital to correct it at home soon after the operation. When the correction is complete and through several months of rehabilitation, the external brace and the nails fixed to the leg are removed without surgery. The nail holes left behind, the holes that the network is worried about, will soon be able to heal.