Why are more and more children with hand and foot deformities? What should I do if my child has hand and foot deformities?

When I first came into contact with hand surgery, hand and foot deformities such as polydactyly, syndactyly, and thumb hypoplasia were not seen much, and hand trauma was more common. When I was a doctor, my teacher took me a long time to see a child with hand and foot deformities, and the incidence was not that high. Over time, we have found that there are more and more children with this type of deformity. There may be two reasons for this, one is that the incidence is really increasing, and there are a variety of reasons for the increase in the number of babies with hand and foot deformities, and the other is that there is a concentration of affected children, and a lot of children come to us for treatment. Parents are often under great psychological pressure when they are faced with the problem of hand and foot deformities. Many parents do not know much about hand and foot deformities, worrying that the deformity will affect the child’s hand and foot function, and also worrying that the aesthetic problem will affect the child’s mental health, and some parents even worry that the deformity will be combined with intellectual problems. Some parents even worry that the deformities may be associated with intellectual problems. Hand and foot deformities do affect the child’s hand and foot function and aesthetics, but they are not associated with intellectual problems, which parents can rest assured. Parents can be assured that there are treatment options for polydactyly, syndactyly, and bunions. Polydactyly is not difficult to treat, syndactyly does not require skin grafting, and in more severe cases of bunion dysplasia, such as the floating bunion, we can save the child’s five fingers with a new method, so parents do not need to be anxious, and just pay attention to the timing of the surgery.