How, you have not yet bought prosthetic orthopedic products for your baby?

It's outrageous! What if the work of the prosthetic factory stops?

Then the real disabled will have nowhere to take shoes! Disfiguring your child's legs with prosthetic pads, you are saving a commercial enterprise - a prosthetic factory from bankruptcy!

I think something like this sounds in the heads of distributors of prosthetic and orthopedic shoes among healthy children "well-being mantra."

We understand that if you take any healthy person and treat for a non-existent disease, the disease comes. For example, we take a normally toned healthy child and begin to do a relaxing massage - as a result, we have a child with hypotension, we do a tonic massage - hypertonicity. Everything seems to be simple. But don't be in a hurry... People who make a living from massage will say, "We do general massage." And they'll screw up. Because there is no such massage in nature. At its core, any massage gives either a relaxing or tonic effect. It all depends on the reception and the time of its implementation. Now imagine that a child with an increased tone was exceeded by 2 minutes of massage, and got the opposite effect! It's scary to think what kind of torment a child will experience from an increase in an already high tone! And the massage therapist will tell you: - "something he is noisy with you, you should show the neurologist." And the neurologist will prescribe pills, and off we go ...

So are orthopedic shoes. It was made for children with severe pathologies, when a child, for example, due to an elongated sock, clinging to the floor, cannot reach the kitchen or toilet. The orthopedist by gypsum brings the toe of the foot up, and "chains" the foot into orthopedic shoes, allowing the child to move independently. Good. Without any chirping.

Now imagine what will happen if a healthy child wears such shoes?

At least the child's gait will change. Due to the lack of movement in the joints of the foot, atrophy of the muscles and ligamentous apparatus of the foot begins, the "closed" idle ankle joint ceases to absorb the position of the foot with each step, each step becomes a blow to the leg, ending in pain in the knee and hip joints. The child is suffering.

And at this time, publicly, an apologist for prosthetic and orthopedic products, our colleague, declares at a public meeting: - "70% of children in the city of Dnepropetrovsk have flat feet!" And a dumb scene...

And the words of the nurse: - "and even a professor."

1. World practice says: if in a population a certain trait occupies 70% of this very population, the trait becomes the norm. For example, when I was in the 1st year of the institute, the rate of leukocytes in children ranged from 5.0 to 7.0 * 10 9A; when I finished the 6th year - from 4.0 to 9.0.

2. Flat feet is the rarest disease, accompanied by stretching of the plantar ligament and "spreading" of the bones along the floor surface. It can be congenital (developmental anomaly) or acquired (weightlifter weighing 150 kg, regularly lifting heavy weights). The first variant occurs in children, but like all variants of anomalies, it is extremely rare.

3. With what they confuse (maybe not even by accident, but taking advantage of the occasion) flat feet. With a bulging installation (not to be confused with deformation) of the ankle joint. In many children, especially in "strong men" in the period of maturation from one to 3 years, when the increased load on the ankle is combined with the immaturity of the ligaments, there is a temporary (or hereditarily determined - who else should we look like if not parents) deflection inwards ankle joint. The phenomenon is temporary, by 3-5 years it goes away by itself, if the body is not disturbed.

And if your legs are daddy's or grandmother's, then all the more so do not interfere.

What do our feet need?

Comfortable, comfortable shoes with a heel with a soft, elastic sole, allowing the development of all the muscles and joints of the foot, absorbing the movements of the child when walking and pumping venous blood up to the body with each step, like a pump.