Question
My child is 3 years and 2 months old, with O-shaped legs and kyphosis. I bought a corrective insole, is it effective? How can O-shaped legs be corrected?
Answer
Your child is currently showing symptoms of O-shaped legs. The methods for correcting this condition include surgery, instruments, splints, casting, exercises, and the use of corrective insoles. If the patient has a bony deformity, surgery can restore the alignment and appearance of the limbs through osteotomy and internal fixation. For severe genu varum deformities, a primary osteotomy with internal fixation may cause nerve and vascular injuries and may lead to complications again. Therefore, it is possible to choose to use an external fixator for slow correction of the deformity to prevent the recurrence of nerve and vascular complications. Surgery should be performed as minimally invasive as possible. Non-surgical correction methods involve relaxing the ligaments on the medial side of the knee joint to fully restore the stability of the lateral structures of the knee joint, thus achieving proper correction of the tibia.