Leg Pressing Treatment for Post-Polio Paralysis

In life, polio is a common disease that brings serious harm to children. After the disease, it will affect the child's walking and even cause the child's legs to become deformed. There will also be some sequelae. Polio is an acute infectious disease. The sequelae it causes will have a great impact on the patient's life. So what are the treatment methods for leg stretching for polio sequelae? Let's take a look together!

Poliomyelitis sequelae is a serious disabling disease that results in lifelong limb disability in children. It affects the children's life, growth and development, not only causing physical deformities but also causing serious obstacles for children to take care of themselves, study and enter society, causing physical and mental damage to children.

The purpose of surgical treatment is to prevent and correct deformity

The treatment of polio is mainly to improve the function. Whether it is conservative treatment or surgical treatment, it is impossible to make the affected limb reach the same level as the healthy limb. From this point of view, the possibility of cure is relatively small. The symptoms of polio patients vary in severity. Some only have one or two muscles paralyzed, while some have complete paralysis of the limbs and trunk. When most patients seek medical treatment, the polio virus has already destroyed nerve cells, causing muscle flaccid paralysis. After one year of treatment, the patient's paralysis and deformity have not improved further, which is called sequelae, and the main purpose of surgical treatment is to correct this deformity.

The surgery is mainly divided into muscle balance reconstruction surgery and osteotomy correction surgery. The former generally uses the more healthy muscles around the paralyzed muscles with secondary functions to replace the paralyzed muscles with important functions. This is what the saying "take money from Peter to pay Paul" means, but the prerequisite is that the quality of the east wall is better than the west wall, but the function of the west wall is more important than the east wall.

The purpose of osteotomy is to correct lower limb deformity, restore normal force line, and enhance lower limb stability. These operations can improve the patient's limb function and quality of life. Long-term rehabilitation training is generally required after surgery.

At present, more than 95% of patients with sequelae of polio can achieve functional rehabilitation to varying degrees through surgical treatment, achieving good treatment results. As patients with sequelae of polio grow older and their bodies grow and develop, new deformities of the limbs often occur, causing functional decline. For example, those who used to walk steadily may become unstable on tiptoe; those who used to walk well may gradually start to walk with their hands stretched on their legs; those who used to walk with their legs stretched may gradually start to walk with the help of crutches. In this case, timely treatment should be taken to prevent the disease from getting worse and improve the function.

Through the above introduction to the leg stretching treatment method for the sequelae of polio, we understand that the sequelae of polio can be improved through correction and surgical treatment. If you suffer from the sequelae of polio, you should go to a professional and regular hospital for treatment to avoid delaying the disease.