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Should I Be Worried About Flat Feet, Twisted Ankle And Closed Knees?

hello dr i m hbbvnaa i have a 3 years and 7 months daughter, she has flat feet and her ankle is twisting outside. i have start using inserts since she was 2 years, but the ankle showed no progress. this is causing her pain in her back knee and her back. and sometimes she wakes with the knees close to each other. please advise what treatments i have? orthopedic Dr said that this is because she has calcaneal valgus or prenatel and the advised to for me to leave her with out a help. one more thing they said that she has extra mi-liability thanks in advance
Fri, 1 Apr 2016
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Hi there
it is very common for children to have flat feet (20 % of children have flat feet) this is because of ligaments being still very loose but as they grow, ligaments toughen up and the medial arch reforms. If she stands on her toes and her feet forms arches on the inner side there is no reason to worry she will do fine. If however she stands on her toes and the feet remain flat and the heel still pointing outside then I would recommend that you sought second opinion from an orthopaedic surgeon.
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Should I Be Worried About Flat Feet, Twisted Ankle And Closed Knees?

Hi there it is very common for children to have flat feet (20 % of children have flat feet) this is because of ligaments being still very loose but as they grow, ligaments toughen up and the medial arch reforms. If she stands on her toes and her feet forms arches on the inner side there is no reason to worry she will do fine. If however she stands on her toes and the feet remain flat and the heel still pointing outside then I would recommend that you sought second opinion from an orthopaedic surgeon.