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[quote=Anonymous]I just ran across this board and OMG, I didn't know there were so many people with the same issues I am experiencing. I wore a brace overnight (I still remember the metal red bar and the shoes with toes cut out). I was the third child and strangely I am the only child my parents had that was severely in-toed. When I started to walk, my feet would overlap and I would step on my own feet, falling. Fast-forward to my mid-30s and I started to have severe pain in my right hip. I ended up having surgery to remove bone spurs on the head of my femur as it was tearing up the joint. The year after that I had to have a microdiscectomy due to sciatic pain on the left side going all down my leg into my foot from a bulging disc. Nearly 7 years later, I am having sciatic pain again and was told that my pelvis tends to tilt forward. I don't know if all of this is directly related to the overnight brace I had to wear to correct my feet. I have heard opinions both to the affirmative and negative. I feel that due to having a bad "foundation", the rest of me is not in alignment. My siblings don't have the hip or back problems that I have, but maybe it is coincidence. I just feel like it is all due to that stupid brace. I know that the options were limited for my parents as we were in a very rural area. I don't blame them, they were doing what they thought was best. I would like to know if there are any studies of adults who wore a foot brace as a child.[/quote]

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