In life, the occurrence of flatfoot is mostly determined by genetic factors. For most patients, no medication is needed, and the main focus is on functional exercises for the internal and external foot muscles (for details, refer to the exercise program for early instability after ankle sprain, which can also play a role in exercising the foot muscles); some patients need orthopedic shoes for correction. The role of flat foot orthopedic shoes is to correct the position of the gravity line, which is to make the gravity line deviate from the arch and reduce the pressure on the arch. The requirement is that the inner thickness of the sole is slightly higher than the outer side, so that the outer side of the foot is stressed more, reducing the pressure on the inner longitudinal arch. In recent years, the negative heel shoes, the sole is high in the front and low in the back, on this basis and the gravity line back, so that the gravity line moved to the strongest weight-bearing capacity of the heel, can minimize the pressure on the arch, negative heel shoes are more common in the United States.
Arch pads. It is very controversial to put them in ordinary shoes. The questioning party believes that arch pads will increase the force on the metatarsal tendon membrane, which is an important part of the arch (equivalent to the role of the arch string).
For a small number of people, surgery is required. The condition chosen by different patients is different. The following is the introduction of the correction method of flatfoot, hope it will be helpful to you.
1, medial displacement osteotomy of the heel bone: the treatment of this flat foot is the same as the treatment of the long toe flexor tendon transfer after surgery, but must be confirmed in the X-ray heel stem osteotomy has healed, before starting weight-bearing exercise on the foot.
2.Toe long flexor tendon transfer: The treatment of flatfoot is to keep the foot in an inward-turned, flexor-plantar position after surgery and fix it with a short-legged tubular cast. 4-6 weeks later, the foot will be fixed in a neutral position with a short-legged posterior brace cast and continue to be fixed for four weeks, at which time local functional exercises for the toes can be started. About ten weeks after the treatment of flatfoot, the cast is removed and functional exercises of the foot and ankle are started.
3, lateral column lengthening is one of the treatment methods of flatfoot: lateral column lengthening is also a kind of osteotomy of the heel bone, during which part of the articular cartilage on the surface of the heel bone is cut off. The post-treatment treatment of flatfoot is the same as medial heel osteotomy.
The above are only some of the ways to correct flat feet. It is best to combine various surgical procedures flexibly for different causes of flat foot deformity to achieve the best orthopedic effect. If you still have any questions about the above, you can consult at the ward.