There are two reasons for flatfoot: congenital and acquired. Congenital flatfoot is due to malformed Talus to slack ligament. Acquired, there is no abnormality in foot bone. It is often due to heavy weight and poor walking habits, standing for a long time or carrying too much weight, or moving too early after serious illness and other reasons, make the foot muscles and ligament relax and atrophy, and finally form flat feet, to determine whether there is flat feet after 2 years old, once the child is found to have flat feet, the following treatment should be performed:

1, when you are young, you should start to exercise the foot muscles, walk on the beach or grass with bare feet, bend the toes, and walk on the outer edge of the sole, which is conducive to the exercise of the lateral muscles and ligaments of the foot.

2, hot water soaking feet can promote foot blood circulation and grab round hoodle with toes to exercise foot muscles.

3, avoid standing or bearing too long, often change position when standing.

4, wear orthopedic shoes or arch supporting pad. The inner half of the sole is 2-3cm thicker than the outer side, and the inner half of the heel is extended to the center of the foot, and is thicker than the outer side. 0.5cm, so that the weight line can move outward from the inner edge of the foot.

5, infants with too tight achilles tendon can be corrected by manipulation to let the children lie on their backs and gradually Varus the foot after stretching the knee joint., back extension can relax Achilles tendon, 2-3 minutes each time, 1-2 times a day.

Using the above orthopedic shoes and techniques to correct, about 70-80% of the children can return to normal.