PODIATRY 4 KIDS
Children
At Melbourne Podiatry Group we assess, treat and manage a range of conditions that affect children’s feet. See below for more information.
- Growing pains are muscular pain in legs commonly affecting children from three to eleven years. Often the pain is worse in the afternoon or evening.
- Symptoms can include:
- Muscle aches and pain in the calf, knee and or thigh
- Movement of the legs does not ease or elevate pain levels;
- Pain is worst at night;
- Pain is not present in the morning;
- Pain foes not cause limping or affect sporting activities.
- Diagnosis of growing pains involves excluding other causes of leg pain such as arthritics, infections and biomechanical deficits.
- At Melbourne Podiatry Group we provide a full biomechanical assessment to exclude any biomechanical abnormalities and provide treatment options to help reduce pain levels in your child.
- Tripping in children when begin to walk is common. Excessive falling or an increase in tripping, as the child gets older can be due to biomechanical deficits, muscular or neurological problems.
- At Melbourne Podiatry Group we provide a full biomechanical assessment to identify any contributing factors towards your child tripping.
- Sever’s is a common lower limb osteochondroses; a distinct condition involving the growth plates of growing bones.
- Sever’s commonly affects children between the ages of eight to fifteen and involves the calcaneal apophysis (growth plate of the heel bone).
- Symptoms can include:
- Heel pain;
- Limp;
- Increase pain with barefoot walking;
- Pain on lateral compression;
- Increased pain in the morning.
- At Melbourne Podiatry Group we offer a treatment options to help relive pain levels.
- Osgood Schlatters is a common lower limb osteochondroses; a distinct condition involving the growth plates of growing bones.
- Osgood Schlatters affects the anterior tibial tubercle (below the knee joint) in children between the ages of eight and fifteen years.
- Symptoms can include:
- Pain with running;
- Pain with kicking;
- Pain with jumping.
- At Melbourne Podiatry Group we offer a treatment options to help relive pain levels.
- Pigeon toe gait also know as intoed gait can be a normal part of childhood development or be abnormal and be associated with other problems and therefore requires intervention.
- Intoed gait may originate from one or more causes. The most common causes are usually associated with the age of the child:
- Infant (1 – 2 years) – metatarsus adductus (front of the foot turns inwards) most likely cause
- Toddler (2 – 3 years) – internal tibial torsion (inward twist of the shin bones) most likely cause
- Children (3 years and older) – femoral torsion (inward rotation of the thigh bone) the most likely cause.
- At Melbourne Podiatry Group we provide a full biomechanical assessment to identify any contributing or causal factors towards your child’s intoed gait.
- Toe walking is a gait pattern where the heel fails to make complete or periodical contact. Toe walking can be idiopathic (unknown cause), developmental or associated with a specific condition.
- Toe walking is common and considered normal under the ages of two to three years.
- At Melbourne Podiatry Group we provide a full biomechanical assessment to identify any predisposing factors, exclude differential diagnoses and develop a treatment plan to reduce your child’s toe walking gait.
- Flat feet are also commonly referred to as pes planus, pronated foot type and fallen arches.
- Flat feet refer to a reduced arch height and can be classified further in terms of severity.
- Children are born with flat feet and directly proportional to age the arch begins to develop and reach maturity around the ages of eight to twelve years.
- Flat feet can be flexible or rigid and painful or asymptomatic.
- It is important to have your child’s feet assessed to determine if interventions are required to provide arch support and redistribute pressure.