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 DEFINITION
The finger in hammer is a problem of the fingers of the feet in which he acquires a position flexionada in claw with a top arch that bothers and gives problems with the footwear and to the gait. It is frequent that, on having changed the supports of the foot, produce tripe to themselves in the finger and in the plant of the foot, which can produce more inconveniences and pain that the proper finger in hammer. Other problems secondary frequent is that the arch is modified to plant making it higher.
CAUSES
Sometimes the problem is the pressure resultant from a bunion, also it can be of origin congenital or acquired due to the use of short and narrow shoes. In the children the problem can result from the rapid growth of the feet and the late change of size of the shoes, not according to his size.
It is diagnosed only by means of a visual evaluation that is sufficient to see the deformity of the finger, and the secondary tripe of the finger and plant.
TREATMENT
The footwear in the adult debit of being sufficiently long and wide, in the children as the growth can be very rapid in certain periods debit of the size of the pié is controlled and to adapt it to his size.
In cases of light affectation there are realized active exercises (external manipulations) and/or with a plastic rod to immobilize the finger a period. The time tries to protect the tripe of the acodamiento of the finger and of the plant with special patches.
If the picture is very advanced or is of long evolution it is possible to intervene by means of surgery, good correcting the joint or in most of the cases fixing the joints, staying the rigid finger but without problems of pain to the gait or with the footwear.
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