Reply to Night braces to correct pigeon toed walking?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Night braces to correct pigeon toed walking?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I was born in 1954 and toed in so badly I wore the braces at night. White shoes, silver bar in between. I remember well, as when I would get up in the morning in order to walk, I had to swing my way along, cutting into the floor on screws on that bar.  I was also knock kneed.  The knock kneed never went away, but it was not that bad, and never an issue until recently.  As another person said here, I also could barely touch my toes and had great difficulty with flexibility.  Went out for letter girl and could never do the splits.  I thought it was because I was tall, 5'10".  I was a good long distance runner, and have heard pigeon "toedness" is good for running.  I jogged until 8 years ago, at which time my back started hurting and stiffening so I couldn't stand up straight after sitting down after a run. Then I started limping. Went to a rheumatologist and she told me I had arthritis in my right hip and if I did not stop running, I would hasten a hip replacement. I gave up running but soon walking hurt too.  I am now considering the hip replacement on my right hip, but was disturbed to hear from the ortho surgeon that my knock knee on that same leg, which I could see had gotten worse these last few years, may also require a replacement.  He said most likely arthritis is causing that worsening.  My mom had bad arthritis, so I figured all this was inherited, but after reading these posts, I too am wondering if the braces did damage to my hip and knees. I will be bringing all this up to my ortho doctor next time I see him.  Did the braces contribute to these other problems or is it all arthritis caused?  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics