How to judge a baby's flat foot

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You may have heard of flatfoot, and many people in our life suffer from this disease. So how should we treat this disease, or how to prevent it? Let's talk about how to judge flatfoot in infants.

How to judge a baby's flat foot

First: the doctor will check the baby's foot bones through the image inspection device, or do a small test for the baby. The test is very simple. Parents can test the baby at home. How to judge a baby's flat foot? Or let the baby barefoot step on the white powder, step on a dark cardboard, leaving footprints.

Second: next, draw a straight line along the inside of the footprint, and measure the distance from the concave part of the footprint to the straight line. How to judge a baby's flat foot is that the distance of a normal baby's foot is about 1 times larger than the width of the narrowest part of the footprint. If the distance between the two is similar, then the baby is mild flatfoot.

Third: how to judge a baby's flat foot? If the distance is only about one and a half of the width of the narrowest part of the footprint, it is a moderate flat foot. There is no depression, that is severe flatfoot. During the initial examination, the patient was asked to take a standing position and inspect the overall force line relationship between the hind foot and the forefoot from the front and rear of the ankle.

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Therefore, parents must pay attention to the possibility that the child may suffer from flatfoot. It is better to take the child to the hospital for some general examinations at the beginning, so as to find out and treat the child as early as possible, and do not wait for the child to grow up too late.