Top 19 exercises for the prevention of flat feet on the beach

The kid ran barefoot on the sand and leave footprints. Of the 10 children under the age of 6 years who have left their mark on the beach, at 7-8 he is too wide and not deep enough. This is what happens with flat feet - foot deformity characterized by flattening its arches. This is one of the most common problems not only in pediatric orthopedics, pediatrics, and he in general!

It indicates a recurring complaint kid, "Legs hurt!" Mom believed that he invents, and in fact such a pain - an indirect sign of flatfoot!

beach test

Check the baby on flat between times can be on the beach or in a sandbox.

• Smooth out the sand so as to obtain a rectangle the size of a sheet of paper A4.
• Take the baby under the arms and put you on the prepared area, making sure that the same time stepped on the sand with both feet. Feet baby must stand together, back - straight!
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• It is important that the load on the foot is distributed evenly: this is why an option when the child himself steps into the center the rectangle is not appropriate - in fact in this case he carries the body weight at first on one foot and then puts it another. As a result, the trace of lead (usually the right) leg is deeper and wider, as if he imitates the flat, and the second stop, even if present looks normal.
• Remove your child from the sand in the same way that and put it in there, - lifting of the armpits, and analyze print. For this…

1. The tip of the index finger swipe 2 straight lines: the first has to pass along the inner side of each track, connecting the upper and lower edge of the recess formed by the base of the fingers and the heel.
2. Perpendicular to this line of conduct another so that it intersects the bulge corresponding to reprint the arch, in the deepest place.
If the track is the narrowest part of the foot takes ...

• not more than a third of you spent the perpendicular, then the baby is all right!
• half - it is flat.
• less than a third - hollow foot.

A similar test can be carried out at home, instead of using sand paper. In this case, the foot baby baby cream to lubricate or beet juice to the traces to be seen.

Gymnastics for feet in the sand

Every day, follow with a baby a special set designed by podiatrists to strengthen the arch of the foot. Do exercises for legs at any time of the day, but better in the morning, repeating each exercise 3-4 times.
Lying on his back
1. Let the child will pull his hands along the body and straighten the legs and then bend and unbend fingers.
2. Ask him to imagine that instead of the big toe on his pencil: let them draw a circle, rotating feet inside. First, the left and right separately, then both together, if possible.
3. Give the ball at his feet (preferably specifically tailored printed) - shall take both feet and try to lower and raise it!
Lying on his stomach
4. Handles at your sides, palms down, legs together. It is necessary to take turns slowly lift the right, then left. Lifting - inhale, return to the starting position - exhale.
When the child has mastered the exercise, complicate it - even if at the same time nodkami lifts head and chest resting on the abdomen and lower back arching in.
Sitting on a chair
5. Feet on the foot width, hands on his knees. Socks lifts stop flexing fingers and then omit straightening them.
6. Become on the heels, tearing socks from the floor and then go down on your toes, lifting your heels.
7. Rotate stops, as in exercise 2.
8. Now ask your child as much as possible to curve arch of the foot without lifting your fingers off the floor and heels.
9. Let scratches legs at the ankles and put the foot on the outer edges, pressing them to the floor, and lifts with internal effort.
10. Feet together and knees between the need to insert a small ball. Raises the internal stop edge, strongly pressing the outer to the floor.

Sitting on a rug
11. Legs stretched out parallel to each other. We pull up to his toes, while turning the foot outward movement of the lower leg.
12. Let the child touches the floor handles, will clamp the ball between the feet and try to raise it as high as possible straight legs.
standing
13. Handles at your sides, feet shoulder-width apart. Rises and falls on your toes.
14. Hold the ball between the lower legs the size of a football, or a little less, and try to walk across the room without dropping it.
15. Put on the floor wand. Let the kid will lay the handle behind your head and pass on the stick side - so that it was between his heels and socks.
16. Throw a handkerchief on the floor: it is necessary to lift the fingers, first one and then the other half-bent leg at the knee (4-6 times).
17. Kid grabs a handkerchief with one foot and hold it in the air, jumping on tiptoe to the second leg. After this change the legs.
18. Let the kid will bend the leg at the knee, put on the ball and rotates it. And then do all the same with the other leg.
19. At the end you need to be like alternately on toes and heels.

Not just shoes

Children's shoes should be made of natural "breathing" materials with a low wide heel and a solid backdrop for semi-rigid sole, without rough seams inside and be sure to size, not for growth or vice versa - have become small.

Check whether the child has not grown out of the shoe, just: His big finger should not rest on the toe, and the width of the shoe put fit child's foot is almost back to back.

Also you will be interested to read this: how to choose children's shoes