A professor addresses a student:
- Judging by your attitude to studying, one might think that you have congenital flat feet!
The topic of flat feet can be found in many jokes. As a rule, it appears in the reasons for non-acceptance for military service. In these stories, potential soldiers feign color blindness, insanity, and regret not having acquired such a mild and desirable affliction as flat feet in 18 years.
In fact, this common deformity is not a bonus that miraculously erases military service from a person's life. This is a serious pathology, and if it is completely ignored and treatment is refused, it is quite possible - and even absolutely certain - to acquire such consequences as curvature of the spine, osteochondrosis, arthrosis, and, as a result, constant pain in the legs, varicose veins, and changes in the functioning of internal organs.
In order to avoid flat feet, there are a number of preventive measures. Walking barefoot is very useful for training your feet - always on a textured surface. For this, go to nature: the seashore, coarse sand, pebbles, grass. Walking on a flat floor will not bring the desired results and is not a preventative measure. The same can be said about shoes that support the foot too obviously, taking over its shock-absorbing functions. In such comfortable conditions, the foot relaxes, and here it is - hello, flat feet!
By the way, about shoes. Today, they sell a lot of low-quality children's shoes that only look like candy in a beautiful wrapper. You tear off the wrapper - and inside there is a half-cardboard insole with a completely flat relief, the wrong heel and seams on the inside of the back. Do you care about your child? Please, take the trouble to buy children's shoes that will meet the necessary parameters of real quality shoes.
Sports and proper nutrition complete the topic of flatfoot prevention.
We will raise the issue of treatment only in the aspect that this is truly a full-fledged treatment, and not just - "we went to therapeutic gymnastics, but sometimes we skip it, and yesterday my daughter asked me to put on smart shoes, in general orthopedic sandals tomorrow already." Treatment of this deformation is a labor-intensive and not at all instantaneous matter. And if the orthopedist has specifically indicated what orthopedic shoes to wear for flat feet, you wear them, and you agree on the slightest deviation from the scheme with the doctor.
…It is the feet that bear an unbearable weight from birth - after all, they carry our entire body from that very joyful moment for parents when the baby took his first step in life and learned to walk. Feet are a complex mechanism, a natural shock absorber for each of our steps. And this mechanism must work flawlessly. The slightest shift in the design of the mechanism entails a number of changes, and if the process is not reversed in time, they can harm the entire system into which this mechanism is built. Use your imagination and put together our simple analogy - incorrectly formed feet will cause irreversible damage to the entire musculoskeletal system, and then to the entire body.
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What you have read is not another horror story. Flat feet are a real threat to health, so if you suspect your child has this pathology, it's time to contact an orthopedist and ask him the question "how to cure flat feet?", "how to massage flat feet?", "what shoes should I wear with flat feet?" and others. The most important thing is not to delay, because the earlier the deformation is diagnosed, the easier and faster it is to treat. Although "fast" is not the word that matches the treatment process. It will take more than one week of effort - but all the efforts are worth it, because in the end your feet will say their sincere "thank you!" :)
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