The corrective treatment of pediatric clubfoot can be divided into conservative treatment and surgical treatment.
1. Conservative treatment:
(1) Wearing orthopedic appliances: such as ankle-foot orthosis, IBC orthopedic insoles. Orthopedic appliances can adjust the pressure of the foot, correct the body position, and the deformity is not easy to recur after treatment.
(2) Rehabilitation exercise therapy: passive loosening of muscles and tendons through orthopedic manipulation, and exercise of children’s lower limb strength and active movement.
(3) Traditional Chinese medicine: massage therapy.
2. Surgical treatment:
(1) Minimally invasive incision and repositioning: combined with orthopedic manipulation and plaster fixation can get good results.
(2) Subtalar joint braking: it is an effective method of correction of clubfoot.
For the way of pediatric clubfoot correction should be combined with the clinical, under the guidance of the doctor according to the imaging examination and specific symptoms to choose the most appropriate treatment plan.