Can the leg shape not be straight be corrected?
If the leg deformation is only slight, it can be corrected by wearing a bracket. If it is serious, it is necessary to go to a regular medical institution to cooperate with the doctor for physical examination and X-ray examination, make clear the leg condition, and choose the appropriate treatment according to the situation. Surgical treatment can play the role of grinding bones or replacing joints, thus improving the leg shape and correcting it.
How to Correct Leg Straightness
1. Children: Especially children under one year old have leg bending, that is, knee joint varus or valgus. Generally, the force line of lower limbs can be corrected by manual massage or wearing braces. Because children's ligaments are flexible, conservative treatment can often achieve ideal results.
2. Adults: If the adult knee joint is varus or valgus, surgical treatment can generally be considered, including osteotomy of the distal femur or osteotomy of the proximal tibia to correct the force line.
3, the elderly: If the elderly have genu varus or valgus due to degenerative osteoarthritis, you can generally consider artificial joint replacement surgery to correct the line of force.
What causes the leg shape to be not straight
1, sitting posture
When sitting down, don't cross your legs, sit cross-legged or kneel, it will change the shape of your legs for a long time.
Step 2: Standing posture
When standing, focus on your feet. Don't always put your strength on one leg while the other leg relaxes. This stance pushes the knee outward. Over time, the legs became O-shaped, which became more and more serious.
Step 3 sleep position
Many people have the habit of crossing their legs when they sleep. This posture will make the knee joint spread outward, and the leg shape will change over time. It is necessary to change this sleeping posture and reduce the factors that are unfavorable to the leg shape.
4. Walking posture
The wrong walking posture will also affect the leg shape, so learn the correct posture when walking. The correct walking posture should be that the body is straight, the waist and abdomen are straight, the eyes look straight ahead, the arms swing naturally at the sides of the body, the toes step forward and walk evenly. Correct walking posture requires long-term persistence, and you can't give up halfway.
5, do clamping action
Straighten your legs and clamp your knees hard, only five times a day, each time 15 minutes. This action can correct the leg shape, exercise the legs, and often do stovepipe, especially to tighten the flesh of the thighs. It can be done by waiting for the bus or watching TV.
Step 6 prescribe diet
Especially for children, the bones have not been finalized. Make sure that children can get enough body calcium to strengthen their bones and make their legs grow normally.
Step 7 exercise
Some sports, such as playing football, practicing martial arts and playing table tennis. , may change the leg shape. This is due to the wrong posture, so that the knee joint is subjected to an outward impulse, leading to the emergence of O-legs. There are many athletes with O-legs, so everyone should master the correct posture when exercising.
How to judge whether the leg shape is straight or not
Normal leg shape
When standing upright normally, the ankles and knees can be close together, the legs are relatively straight, they can be close to each other, and the leg shape is normal.
X-leg
When standing upright normally, knees can be close together, feet can't be close together, legs are close together like the letter X, both knees are close together but ankles can't be close together, and the distance between the two ankles is measured to be more than 9cm.
Precautions for X-legs
If you have X-legs, you should pay special attention to whether you have valgus knees. Go to the hospital if necessary.
O leg
When standing upright normally, your feet can be close together, but your knees can't be close together, and your knees are outward, which is an O-shaped leg.
O-leg crowd characteristics
Generally, boys have O-legs, especially boys who like playing football must pay special attention to whether they have O-legs.
X-o leg
When standing normally, it is basically normal above the knee, but the gap between the legs is too large. This kind of leg is XO-shaped, and generally it looks like the calf is curved.