How to treat infantile foot varus

Update Date: 2025-12-01 Source: Network

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Congenital clubfoot, also known as congenital deformity foot, is a common congenital deformity, mostly unilateral foot deformity, but it can also be bilateral, and if treated in time, it has the effect of recovery. Now I will introduce how to treat children's clubfoot.

How to treat infantile foot varus

First, the general varus is caused by heredity or calcium deficiency. It depends on whether it is serious or not. If it is not serious, you can try a kind of splint treatment. If it is serious, you need surgery, but it must be combined with the age of the baby.

Second, the doctor should teach the mother or other people who take care of the child. When correcting, the technique should be gentle to avoid injury. At the same time, we should pay attention to moderate correction instead of excessive correction.

Third, children who fail to receive manual correction or plaster fixation, or who miss the opportunity of correction, can be treated by surgery. Children aged from three to 15 can be treated by soft tissue release surgery. Children aged after 15 can not achieve the expected goal by manual correction or soft tissue release surgery, or children with severe varus and ptosis who have not been treated, It can be treated by three joint fusion operation. After the operation, it is fixed with plaster until the three joints of calcaneus, talocalyx and calcaneocuboid are fused

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The treatment of congenital clubfoot is mainly to correct the deformity. It should be treated immediately from birth, because the earlier the treatment, the better the effect. If the early treatment can be timely, the foot function can be restored. The treatment methods vary according to the age and the degree of deformity.