Abstract
In this article the causes of acute and chronic foots pain in children are described. Congenital defects of the foot occur with the frequency of 1 per 1,000 newborn children.
Changes of the muscle balance are the reason of deformations in the area of the foot on neurogenic (neurological) diseases (cerebral palsy, meningomyelocele, morbus Charcot-Marie-Tooth, congenital myotonic dystrophy). Hyperlaxicity and hypermobility of the joints support the occurence of static defects already in chilhood.
In this way flat foot is formed with subjective difficulties - fatigue, pain and changes of form of the leg. The goal of this article is to point out the problem of the most frequent congenital and acquired defects of different etiology and the posibilities of their treatment.