Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Deformed foot clubfoot

The clubfoot or club foot common birth defect occurs when one or both feet twisted inward and heading towards the bottom. Leaving the club foot without addressing the inability to walk, infection, chronic pain. More roads commonly used in the treatment is the Ponseti method. The doctor gently pull the infected foot and then installs it Bajabirh long leg.

The doctor repeats this process five to eight times. And on the patient to wear a supportive device for three months during the early treatment period, and continues to wear later during nap time and while sleeping only several years after the tensile and splinting. Most cases of club foot are correct so that you can do foot function normally.

an introduction

Clubfoot (club foot) is a common congenital malformation, birth and affects one in every 1,000 births. This term is used when one of the baby's feet are crooked or both inward and tilted to the downside.
Club foot does not cause pain, and can be an early treat her to correct most cases.

This program explains what are club foot, and their causes, and complications resulting therefrom, options and means to prevent relapse treatment.

 Anatomy of the foot

Tendons are tissues you connect muscle to bone, as it contributes to keep the foot in place.


In the case of clubfoot foot, leg and foot tendons be shorter than normal, thus pulling the foot to the status of abnormal, leading to deformation of the bone. And this distortion can be corrected through early treatment.

In the natural foot, ankle with leg forms a right angle, and a toe facing the ground, and walked to the bottom.

In club foot, so the foot curled down and inside, so similar golf putter head.

 The condition of club foot to be moderate or severe. In some cases, the foot look like upside-down. It can be both feet Tkona riddled Balhanaf, and this is what is known as bilateral situation. It can also be one foot club foot, and this is what is known as the situation unilateralism.

Even after the treatment of club foot, can muscle calf (rear leg muscles) to be atrophic, and foot are smaller than the normal foot. But, do not cause any of the above imbalance in leg function.

 Reasons club foot

Doctors what causes clubfoot specifically is not known; however, cases of clubfoot appear sometimes in conjunction with other congenital problems; however, the cause is unknown in most cases.
Nothing to do with the status of the fetus in the uterus to happen clubfoot.

There are some factors that increase the risk of clubfoot, including:

     Sex; males are more than twice as likely than females to infection Bhanaf foot.

  Family history (genetics). It brings the risk of clubfoot If a parent or one of the children born foot club foot.
     the environment. Cases of clubfoot are closely slightly pregnancies that are complicated by infection or drug use or cigarette smoking.

Nothing to do with what has or has not done the mother during pregnancy causing Bhanaf foot.


Diagnosis of club foot

Clubfoot can be diagnosed easily by performing a physical examination.

Doctors sometimes additional checks, Calfhs by X-rays.

You can see the club foot before birth through ultrasound examination. Nor can begin treatment before birth, but early diagnosis helps parents to prepare and plan for treatment.

 Club foot untreated

Club foot does not cause any pain, no longer a problem that the child begins to walk.

Football remains clubfoot twisted, if not addressed. The lead foot neglected clubfoot treatment to difficulties in walking, can hinder freedom of movement dramatically, causing lifelong disability
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 Impossible to wear normal shoes in people with untreated clubfoot foot.

Children who uses a foot clubfoot, and who are able to walk, the outer part of the foot for walking. This can lead to infection in the foot and thickening of the tissues and chronic pain.

It can handle most cases of clubfoot, and thankfully, easily.

 Podiatry monotheists

Treat clubfoot begins in childhood habit. The method of "Ponseti" of the most common treatment options, which start in the first two weeks of a child's life.

He prefers to start in a "Ponseti" in childhood, but doctors now able to reach a satisfactory outcome by following the same approach in the advanced stages of age up to the age of twenty.
Way "Ponseti" depends on the tightening club foot and maneuver gently toward the status of more convenient; then the long plastic splint extends from the toes up to the thigh to maintain the new position of the foot mode.

Leave the splint for 4 to 7 days. And the push and maneuver on foot again, and then again placed a splint. It reiterates the tensile strength and maneuverability and splinting of 5 to 8 times.

Most cases require a simple process and a final splint soon as they become tight tendons and ligaments to allow for the bones of the foot to move to the correct position.

Most often, before putting the finishing plaster, it is clipped the heel tendon, the tendon connecting the heel and calf muscle (rear leg muscles), where this simple operation under local anesthesia are.

When you remove the last of the plaster, the heel tendon has healed and grew again appropriate length. It is worth mentioning that it must retain the final splint for between two to three weeks, both the heel tendon cut or not cut.

 In rare cases, the harshness of the tendons and ligaments of the child without turning corrected by way of "Ponseti". The need for surgery in case of treatment failure through this method may be require

Relapse prevention

It can be presented clubfoot relapse after screwing and orthopedic operations, if not cared for by an appropriate manner.

You must wear a brace to prevent the return of football to the wrong and repositioning.

It is worn mainstay for 23 hours a day at first. Thereafter, the mainstay wear during the hours of naps and sleep at night. It is the duty of parents follow the advice of health care professionals in order to prevent relapse of the foot.

 Conclusion

Club foot deformity commonly affects the child's foot. This term is used when one of the baby's feet are crooked or both inward and tilted to the downside.

Negligence foot treat clubfoot may lead to impairment of ability to walk and infection and chronic pain. But, thanks to medical advances, can most cases of club foot treatment without surgical intervention.

 Way "Ponseti" are the most common treatment, this method relies on a series of tensile light and orthopedic operations. The result of true followers have a very successful way if at the hands of an experienced specialist.

Most cases can be corrected clubfoot foot through early treatment, and the use of stent on a regular basis for a number of years after the end of the tensile and orthopedic operations.

 

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