Flatfoot is one of the most common conditions seen in pediatric podiatry practice. Flatfoot is a term used to describe a recognizable clinical deformity created by malalignment at several adjacent joints. Clinically, a flatfoot is one that has a low or absent longitudinal arch. There enough many studies designed to assess the flatfoot and body posture of young schoolchildren but it is difficult to find out the data concerning the preschool children. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficiency of long-term exercise training procedures designed for the treatment of flatfoot of pre-school children and influence of flatfoot to posture. Subject in this study was 61 pre-school children. To 32 of them was set the diagnosis of flatfoot and during three years the exercise training procedures was applied. The results obtained during the study has showed that for 44 percent of these children has not any deformations of foots, so the designed exercise training procedures were effective. The other task of this study was to assess the influence of flatfoot to posture. Children who has a foot deformations has more frequent postural problems in comparison to healthy foot children. The higher influence to body posture has a asymmetry in flatfoot than the degree or value of flatfoot. On the other hand the employed computer program “Autocad” was suitable for evaluation of postural peculiarities of children and allowed to perform a precise measurements and analysis of obtained... [to full text]

Tyrimo objektas: Ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų plokščiapadystės įvertimimo metodų palyginimas prieš ir po kineziterapijos. Tyrimo tikslas: Įvertinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų plokščiapadystės įvertinimo metodų palyginimus prieš ir po kineziterapijos. Tyrimo hipotezė: Manome, kad ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų plokščiapėdystės įvertinimui tiksliausi Čičino metodas ir Chipaux-Smirak indeksas. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Įvertinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudą prieš ir po kineziterapijos naudojant Čičino metodą. 2. Įvertinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudą prieš ir po kineziterapijos naudojant Chipaux-Smirak indeksą. 3. Įvertinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudą prieš ir po kineziterapijos naudojant Staheli indeksą. 4. Įvertinti ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudą prieš ir po kineziterapijos naudojant Clarke kampo vertinimą. 5. Vertintų metodikų tarpusavio palyginimas. Tyrimo problema: Plokščiapėdystės problemos nagrinėjimo pasigendama šalyje vykdomų mokslinių tyrimų tematikoje. Išvados: 1. Įvertinus ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudus naudojant Čičino metodą vieno vaiko iš 3-4 metų amžiaus grupės plokščia pėda po kineziterapijos tapo normali, o 4-5 metų amžiaus grupėje vieno vaiko pėda iš suplokštėjusios tapo normalia (p<0.05). 2. Įvertinus 3-4 amžiaus vaikų pėdos antspaudą naudojant Chipaux-Smirak indeksą, prieš kineziterapiją 24 vaikai turėjo plokščią pėdą. Po kineziterapijos dviejų iš jų pėda tapo suplokštėjusi, o dviejų –... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Research object: Comparison of preschool children flatfoot evaluation methods before and after kinesitherapy. Research aim: Evaluate comparisons of flatfoot evaluation methods for preschool children before and after kinesitherapy. Research hypothesis: We think that the most accurate methods for estimation of preschool children flatfoot are Chichen method and Chipaux-Smirak index. Research tasks: 1. Estimate foot print of preschool children before and after kinesitherapy by using Chichen method. 2. Estimate foot print of preschool children before and after kinesitherapy by using Chipaux-Smirak method. 3. Estimate foot print of preschool children before and after kinesitherapy by using Staheli index. 4. Estimate foot print of preschool children before and after kinesitherapy by using estimation of Clarke angle. 5. Comparison of used methods. Research problem: Lack of scientific research that is related to flatfoot problem analysis in Lithuania. Conclusions: 1. Preschoool children feet stamps were evaluated by Chichen method. Flat foot of one child in 3-4 years age group became normal after kinesitherapy and pre-flat foot of one child in 4-5 years age group became normal (p<0.05). 2. Preschoool children (3-4 years old) feet stamps were evaluated by Chipaux-Smirak index. 24 children had flatfoot before kinesitherapy. After kinesitherapy, two of them had pre-flat feet and two in-between feet. In 4-5 years old children group, flat foot of one child became normal and in 5-6 years... [to full text]