A efetividade dos tratamentos conservadores para pé plano valgo: um estudo retrospectivo

Abstract

The flatfoot is the more common postural deformity in infancy. The percentage of children who do not follow the natural evolution can in the adult age suffer precocious degeneration in the joints, in general painful. Although the advances reached in relation to the knowledge of the flatfoot, some details still remain in open, that excite quarrel, mainly in relation the effectiveness about the treatment. Beyond this, our objective was, by means of a retrospective study, to analyze the effectiveness of the conservative treatments for flatfoot. A questionnaire was used and the evaluation of the foot prints, using a plantar foot pressure, of 100 women between 18 and 25 years. We found that 14 subjects told us that had flatfoot in infancy, 9 of them engaged some kind of treatment and 3 of these persons had kept the situation. Among the subjects that told us that have normal foot, 4 of them engaged treatment. We suggest in our conclusion that the flatfoot correction treatments weren’t effective and studies with a higher number of participants are demanded.