O-leg technically refers to genu varus. When the baby's legs are straight, the heels are closed, and the two knee joints are not together, it is an O-leg. Parents often take their one-year-old babies to the hospital clinic. They are very anxious: "Dr. Yao, our child's legs are not straight. Will they grow up like this? How to treat them? " Don't worry, before the age of 2, the child's legs are O-shaped, which is a physiological phenomenon. No problem. Generally, with the growth and development of children's thigh muscles, they can be corrected independently. At this time, the only way is to observe the progress of the child's leg shape after the age of 2 without interference. If it is gradually straightened, or the development trend is X-shaped legs, it is the normal whole process of human physiology.
Trauma, inflammation, rickets, skeletal hypoplasia, osteomalacia, congenital skeletal growth, mucopolysaccharide storage type IV or chondroectodermal hypoplasia, polio vaccine, malignant tumor or cerebral palsy may all cause changes in children's leg shape. Children over 3 years old may have physiological leg deformities if the angle of varus or valgus exceeds 20 degrees, the distance between kneecaps of legs is too large, or the medial malleolus of feet exceeds 5cm. At this time, I will go to the hospital outpatient clinic for treatment. Adjust your walking posture. People with O-legs walk with their legs spread out and their toes spread out, which is very unsightly, but it can be corrected according to the walking movement.
When you go first, your body should be straight and your abdominal cavity should be closed. Then, of course, the pressure released by both hands will swing outward with walking, and finally the soles of the feet will straighten forward and walk symmetrically. Rope correction method. Prepare an elastic rope in advance, but not too thin, then put your legs together, tie the lower limbs of your legs together with a rope, then put your hands on your kneecaps, bend your upper body forward and squat for 20 times, and finally jump up for 20 times. First, support the ground flat, bend your hands and put them on the ground. Pay attention to the fact that your arms are perpendicular to the ground, then step on the ground with your feet, and your body will gradually leave. Finally, your abdominal muscles will tighten and your eyes will be fixed on the ground to keep the symmetry of inhalation. Everyone doesn't like O-legs very much, but there are many bad habits in daily life, such as crossing your legs, walking outside the figure of eight and kneeling, which all lead to O-legs, so we should cultivate good habits and not cause O-legs.