Children Wear Wrong Shoes And Flat Feet.

Foot protection

How many parents will consider the health factor when buying shoes for children? According to local surveys, many parents do not understand the impact of foot problems on children's growth, nor do they know how to choose suitable healthy shoes for their children.

Because of the immature bone development of the feet, children often have flat feet, which makes feet easily tired.

At the age of 4, the arch begins to grow slowly.

A primary school in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, made footprints analysis for 1282 students in the school.

The results showed that nearly 7 of the students had foot flat feet in varying degrees.

During the survey, these students did not know that they had foot problems, and their parents lacked the right knowledge of foot health.

Liu Peng, associate professor of rehabilitation medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhongshan University, pointed out that children begin to grow slowly from about four years old. The foot arch is gradually formed. Due to the immature bone development of the feet, children often have flat feet phenomenon, which makes feet easy to fatigue. Severe cases also cause plantar fasciitis, X leg, and even back pain, knee pain, spur and other sequela.

Parents should face up to this problem and prevent and deal with children's foot problems as early as possible.

4 to 14 years old for foot examination every 4 months.

Children should have different nursing methods at every stage of foot growth.

Wu Chun Ying, a part-time professor in the prosthetic orthopedics course of Zhongshan University and a health consultant at Dr.Kong health shoes shop, suggests that parents should make regular foot examinations for children aged 4 to 14 every 4 months to understand the foot condition of children and to prevent and deal with children's foot problems in time.

Children can also do more exercises, such as toes, claws and bouncing exercises, to help them develop their feet, so as to prevent the sequela of flat feet.

Besides, children can reduce the chance of foot sequela by wearing suitable shoes and insoles.

Canvas shoes, which are popular with many students, are not suitable for children with bone development in their feet.

Wu Kunying analysis, such shoes are too soft and shock-absorbing function is poor, especially the heel cup and the bottom part of the body is not stable enough, which is not conducive to the healthy development of children's feet, especially for children with flat feet, "white rice fish" insole is unable to prevent flat foot sequela.