"Symptom of a ballerina" or "walking on toes" Bashny.Net

Examinations of infants over the past 10 years have shown a serious interest of specialists pediatric profile phenomenon, which is figuratively called "walking on toes", "symptom ballerinas", "Chicks" or equinus stop.



The reason for this situation is severe or moderate muscular dystonia and hypertonia of the muscles-flexors of the foot and lower leg. In most cases dystonia is bilateral in nature, it is the children of the first year of life or older, it is called pyramidal insufficiency.




With flecktarn by hypertonicity in newborns, this position is natural and up to two months without worry. The alarm bell is when the older children can't exactly stand on legs, they have a high tendon reflexes, delay the reduction of other reflexes. There is a test for muscle tone, when the baby is calm, put on your stomach, bend in the knee and phalerum calf muscles and comparatively examine the tone the gluteal muscles.


In this position the normal rate when muscle tension is the same. In children with pyramidal insufficiency immediately noticeable difference. Calf muscles alone are tense, sometimes "like a stone", and the buttocks are in a state of normal muscle tone. Do not lose heart, today invented a lot of different ways to deal with this pathology: physiotherapy, physiotherapy, manual therapy, phonophoresis. If a soft or plaster bandage that can be used from the first days of birth, did not bring the desired result, it helps surgery: operations are performed on the soft tissues on the foot and in places where the attached muscles. Special attention is given to therapy, which improves nervous permeability.






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