Claiming that seven days can make the legs straight, does it really work or IQ tax?

Jimu News reporter Liao Shiqi

Drawing Liu Yang

Correspondent Liu Shanshan Zhou Shan

Summer is coming, the season of wearing skirts is coming again, girls are most eager to have a pair of long and straight star with the same beautiful legs, recently, a so-called "straight leg artifact" products quickly became popular on the Internet.

Can a straight-legged artifact really make the legs long and straight? Does it really work or is it an "IQ tax"? Yesterday, Jiangcheng experts said that adult bones have long been fixed, and it is of little significance to correct them through so-called artifacts. If you want to have healthy legs, wear less high heels, eat a balanced diet, and exercise reasonably with stretching is the key.

With the artifact leggings for a month, girls even have difficulty walking

The 22-year-old senior girl Yingying (pseudonym) is young and beautiful, and the only failure she realizes is that she has grown a pair of "O-shaped legs", for which she never dares to wear tight pants and short skirts. Seeing that the graduation countdown is about to enter the workplace, in order to pursue the "chopstick legs" quick effect, she not only participated in the body shaping online class, but also purchased a popular lace-up type "straight leg artifact" to bundle the legs.

After watching the binding, her legs have indeed become a lot straighter, and in the past month, she has not only adjusted the binding strength to the maximum file, but also carried it at all times when reading, listening to lectures, exercising, and even sleeping, until recently, Yingying's knee joints were in pain, and even normal walking was very difficult, which came to the Orthopedic Department of the Yangtze River Shipping General Hospital.

After perfect physical examination and examination, the receiving expert Zou Kai found that Yingying's medial tenderness in both knees was obvious, and the valgus test was also positive, and after detailed questioning, the diagnosis was the injury of the medial collateral ligament of both knees, and he deduced that it was precisely due to yingying's long-term and high-intensity binding of the lower limbs.

In order to alleviate the pain and avoid the risk of further aggravation of the injury and the fracture, Zou Kai instructed Yingying to immediately stop the leggings, fully brake and recuperate, and formulated a knee physiotherapy plan for her.

There are many types of products, and the effect promotion is as good as possible

Enter the four words of "straight leg artifact" on a shopping website, and a large number of leg correction products will pop up immediately, claiming to correct various leg problems such as X-shaped legs, O-legs, and non-straight legs. These so-called "straight-legged artifacts" are doing their best to publicize the effect, playing the name of "recommended by orthopedic doctors", some claim that 7 days can make consumers change, some claim that changes can be seen within 3 times of use, and some show "patent certificates", and even declare "scientific verification of the effect, tens of thousands of experience cases".

The more common "straight-leg artifacts" on the market are mainly divided into two types: one is a lace-up product, the user needs to use the product to firmly tie his legs, and realize leg correction and leg shape change by binding his legs. The other is an electric intelligent straight-leg instrument that claims to have the functions of heat sensation, infrared heat compress, etc., the price of such instruments is slightly more expensive than the lashing type products, reaching several thousand yuan, but the effect advertised in the advertisement is also stronger, claiming that even if the bone is formed, it can be straightened.

Some of the beauty lovers who were dissuaded by the price of several thousand yuan quickly turned their attention to another corrective insole that also claimed to be able to correct X-shaped legs and O-shaped legs. Most of these corrective insoles only need a few tens of yuan, because the price is low and the sales volume is also very good, and some stores can sell more than 8,000 pieces a month.

Straight-legged artifacts are not reliable, and are not suitable for adults and teenagers

Is the bundled "straight-legged artifact" that has been hyped online really useful? In this regard, You Fei, deputy director of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Wuhan Central Hospital, introduced that in general, there are two situations in which people's legs are bent, one is caused by the wear and tear of knee cartilage. Once the cartilage is worn and the person is in a state of stress for a long time, the legs will tilt and bend; the second condition is congenital bone dysplasia. Using the "straight-leg artifact" to apply a certain external force to the bone by binding and binding, it did look straight at the time, but once this external force is removed, the bone will return to its original state.

You Fei pointed out that the main consumer group of online "straight-legged artifacts" is adult women, but it is well known that the bones of adults have long been stereotyped, and it is of little significance to try to change the shape of bones through external force binding and bundling. For adolescents under 14 years of age whose skeleton development is not complete and whose epiphyseals are not completely closed, it is not suitable to use the "straight-leg artifact" on their own.

You Fei introduced that she had received a 13-year-old girl, purchased a straight-legged artifact under the recommendation of a friend, tied her legs every day after returning home from school, and did not loosen the binding until the next morning before going to school, in order to make the correction effect better, each time tied very tightly, a week later, her legs were tingling and cold, the parents learned that after taking her to the hospital for treatment, after examination and detailed inquiry, she found that the girl's legs had bruised, judging that it was due to the use of straight-leg artifacts when tied too tightly for a long time, resulting in leg circulation dysfunction, Symptoms of nerve damage appear.

Does a seemingly inexpensive corrective insoles really correct the shape of the leg? Zou Kai, chief physician of the Department of Orthopedics of Yangtze River Shipping General Hospital, said that orthopedic insoles are mainly used for patients with imbalance in foot or lower limb strength, such as high arch foot and flat foot, and the use of such products can better alleviate the pain caused by pressure imbalance, and the correction of adult lower limb shape correction, such as "luo circle leg" or "O-shape leg" and so on, is not much effect. As for the electric intelligent straight leg instrument that claims to have the functions of heat sensation and infrared heat compress, it is not worth mentioning, and the principle is equivalent to using a towel to heat the compress.

If you want your legs to look better, exercise and stretching are indispensable

You Fei introduced that the most common manifestation of leg irregularity is the "O" type leg, O type leg can generally be self-tested by the following standards: in a relatively natural state, the bilateral ankle joints are together, and the distance between the knee joints is observed, in general, it is two horizontal fingers, less than or equal to two horizontal fingers is normal. If it is greater than or equal to three fingers, it is the performance of O-shaped legs.

Zou Kai said that from a professional point of view, in fact, most people's legs are not completely straight, because on the one hand, the bones have a physiological arc, on the other hand, the legs are not straight and not straight, but also related to soft tissues such as muscle and fat. Adults can only correct leg deformation through surgery, but if there is no pain, lesions, dysfunction, problems that affect the quality of life, etc., straight leg surgery simply for the sake of beauty is not allowed in medical ethics.

How to have a healthy pair of beautiful legs under the premise of ensuring health? You Fei suggested that from a biomechanical point of view, it is not recommended that women wear high heels for a long time. In daily life, you can do some cycling, swimming, jogging sports. Before and after exercise, be sure to do some appropriate stretching, including your own active stretching, or the passive stretching of the instrument. Stretching can not only eliminate the fatigue and soreness of the legs, but also make the leg muscle lines natural, avoid the muscle fibers from becoming thicker, and make the leg shape look better.

Zou Kai added that because the shape of the legs is good-looking, and the muscle and fat content has a certain correlation, so a reasonable diet, pay attention to nutritional balance, do not be too thin or obese, keep the body mass index in a normal range, is also essential for shaping a good-looking leg shape.