Protruding bones in foot joints

The joints on a normal person's feet are smooth, and you won't feel any abnormal protrusions if you touch them carefully with your hands. However, many people find that the bones in their foot joints are protruding, which makes their feet look very ugly and like a deformity. Especially for women who love beauty very much, finding that the bones in their foot joints are protruding is a fatal blow to them. What are the causes of protruding bones in the foot joints?

Hallux valgus is the most common foot deformity and is more common in women. The male to female ratio is about 1:10. There are two reasons for this:

First: There is a certain genetic tendency for clubfoot. If the mother has clubfoot, the probability of her children suffering from clubfoot is significantly increased. Because women's foot ligaments are weaker than men's, they are more likely to develop big feet under the same genetic conditions. Moreover, the flexibility of the ligaments decreases with age, which is why hallux valgus is more common in middle-aged and elderly women.

Second: Women often wear high heels and pointed leather shoes, which wrap the forefoot tightly and put the toes in an abnormal state. If this continues for a long time, big toe deformity will gradually form. According to research, in the 1950s, female fishermen living in rural areas along the southeast coast rarely wore shoes, and almost no one suffered from hallux valgus at that time.

In recent decades, as living standards have improved, their descendants have also begun to wear high-heeled, pointed leather shoes, and the phenomenon of big toes has begun to appear, and the incidence rate has gradually approached that in cities.

Women with large feet will have their quality of life greatly affected. From an aesthetic point of view, in the summer, women often like to wear beautiful sandals and slippers to show off their feet. However, women with big feet are deeply troubled by this, as their deformed feet make them ashamed to show them in front of others.

On the other hand, from a health perspective, patients with bunion often experience symptoms such as pain and difficulty wearing shoes. Patients with a long course of the disease may also develop lesions in the knee joints and lumbar spine, which seriously affect their health.

Already deformed big toe bones can only be treated with surgery to correct the deformity and relieve pain. The correction of the big toe bone is somewhat complicated. Different correction methods should be used for different pathological stages and different pathological manifestations. Unlike traditional surgical methods, plastic surgery does not require large incisions and internal fixation. It uses minimally invasive technology combined with plastic surgery technology to treat hallux valgus. By using a unique micro-powered drilling tool and small incision (5mm-8mm) technology, the hyperplastic osteophytes are removed in the joint capsule of the first metatarsophalangeal joint, and the metatarsal head osteotomy, displacement and fixation are completed in the joint capsule to correct the metatarsal varus deformity of moderate to severe hallux valgus. The hallux valgus correction can be completed in one go. The operation has small trauma, fast recovery, few complications, and good treatment effect. The operation is performed under local anesthesia and is painless. The patient can walk immediately after the operation and the recovery time is short.

Due to the high incidence of hallux valgus and its serious impact on life and work, hallux valgus treatment has been included in medical insurance coverage since 2006.