ORIGINAL ARTICLESA NEW WAY OF TREATING FLAT FEET IN CHILDREN
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Foot Orthoses
2020, Neale’s Disorders of the Foot and AnkleCongenital and Acquired Disorders
2018, Atlas of Orthoses and Assistive Devices, Fifth EditionPainful Flexible Flatfoot
2015, Foot and Ankle ClinicsCitation Excerpt :Customized and modified foot orthoses may normalize muscle activity in the flatfoot.41 The Helfet heel seat shoe orthoses was introduced in 1956 for the treatment of the FFF44 followed by the University of California Biomechanical Laboratory shoe insert in 1976.45 The aim of using foot orthoses is to put the foot in a biomechanically better position to function.39
The Calcaneo-Stop Procedure
2012, Foot and Ankle ClinicsCitation Excerpt :There are no controlled prospective studies showing the avoidance of long-term pain or disability by prophylactic nonoperative or operative treatment of asymptomatic flatfoot.3 There is, on the contrary, an abundance of studies advocating the absolute inefficiency of conservative treatments (shoe modifications and insoles) for correction of flatfoot deformity, with the exception of heel cord stretching exercise in case of concomitant Achilles brevis.27,28,29 Furthermore, according to Morley,3 nearly 100% of 2-year-old children are flatfooted, with a drop to 4% at age 10.
The Ankle and Foot
2008, Practical Orthopedics, Sixth Edition