Knock Knees in Children: How They Occur
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Knock knees in children
Children who have started to walk and are already romping outside get knock knees over time, but this is part of normal development. Due to the vitamin D prophylaxis that the doctor prescribes for every child for the first one to one and a half years of life, we no longer have pathological knock knees.
Every baby is born with bowlegs . The stress of learning to walk leads to knock knees, which eventually grow out. Children who move a lot will hardly have problems with malpositions.
Fix knock knees
In the case of pathological malpositions, an operation is considered, because in the long term all major leg malpositions, whether knock knees or bowlegs, lead to premature wear of the articular cartilage, so that arthrosis of the knee joint can develop with increasing age.