Every parent wants his or her child to have a pair of beautiful, long, straight legs. However, some babies due to wrong behavior habits, resulting in the deformation of the baby's legs, the appearance of O-shaped legs, loop legs. In fact, as long as parents are careful enough, cultivate children's sitting posture and standing posture from an early age, and correct some of their children's wrong behaviors in time.
How to judge the circle leg?
It is mostly normal for babies under one year old to not straighten their legs, which is related to the baby curled up in the stomach and will slowly get better. For older babies, when the baby is sleeping or completely relaxed in bed, gently bring the baby's ankles together, if the knee joints cannot touch, it may be O-shaped legs.
The main causes of the legs are:
1. Walk too early
Some babies will stand very early, not to the age of one year can already walk steadily on their own, and children are still small, soft leg bones, walking too early can easily lead to knee joint deformation, it is easy to appear loop legs.
2. Rickets
The main cause of pediatric rickets is vitamin D deficiency. In the early stage, hyperhidrosis and easy alarm are the main symptoms, and if not corrected in time, it will affect bone development. When the baby is slightly older and begins to learn to stand and walk, the legs are difficult to carry the weight of the body, which will cause the lower limbs to bend outwards and form O-shaped legs.
3. Poor sitting posture
Many babies like to use the "W-shaped kneeling posture", in fact, looking at this letter can clearly know that when the baby is sitting, the calves are bent outwards, and the two legs are completely W-shaped. When the baby sits like this, his knee joint is valgus, and the pelvic bone is also expanded outward, which can easily cause the baby to walk with eight or O-shaped legs.
Clinically, most of the baby's loop legs are normal physiological phenomena, because the baby is still small, the lower limb muscles are not developed enough, can not bear the weight of the body and caused, generally with the growth and development of children, most of them will correct themselves, do not need treatment. Usually, parents can also give the baby more calcium supplements, insist on helping the baby massage the legs, and do leg clamping exercises.
Leg clamping exercise: feet, ankles, knees at the same time close to clamp, one hand to hold the baby's heel, the other hand to hold the baby's calf along the knee gently squeeze, slide to the neck of the foot, insist on a few minutes after relaxing, and then repeat N times, usually free can be pressed, do not need any tools.