To massage a baby's legs to straighten them first lay the baby on their back on a soft and flat surface.
Then cradle each thigh of the baby with your hands and then swivel outwards and down along the baby's leg as you straighten the baby's legs out.
Babies sleep with legs bent as it helps to allow healthy hip development.
Babies legs get stronger by the time they are 5 months to 7 months old which is when the baby should bear almost all their weight on their legs and bounce when they are held in a standing position.
You can stop bow legged through exercise, braces and surgery.
Rickets can be treated through calcium and vitamin D added to the diet.
Babies are sometimes born bow legged which most often resolves on it's own by 18 months to 24 months.
Babies may also develop bow legs as they grow into toddlers.
The muscles that are weak in genu varum are the gluteus medius muscles which can increase the demand on the muscle for maintaining hip and pelvic stability.
Genu Varum deformity is also known as bow legs which is a condition in which the legs curve outward at the knees while your feet and ankles also touch.
To hide bow legs in jeans you can use a cosmetic support called a Legi which corrects and disguises the appearance of bow legs under jeans and tight clothes.
You can also wear looser fitting jeans to help hide the bow legs.
The best way to dress with bow legs are to wear flared skirts or wide fitting pants.
Avoid tight fitting pants and go with pants that are large in the legs that fit more loosely.
Bowed legs sometimes get worse and can cause leg deformity, trouble walking or running and increase your risk of arthritis as an adult.
You can get straight legs from bow legs through exercise and using leg braces or through surgery.
You can fix most cases of bow legs without surgery through braces or exercise and in babies and toddlers bow legs usually go away by 18 months to 24 months of age.
In more severe cases of bow legs surgery is most often required.
Braces can fix bow legs and slowly move the legs into a straighter position as the child grows.
If the leg braces don't fix the bow legs properly then surgery known as an osteotomy procedure can correct the bow legs and lower limb alignment.
Exercises that can help bow legs are yoga, cycling, Pilates, Tai Chi, Rowing and Swimming.
When you have bow legs maintaining a healthy lifestyle and doing gentle exercises can help to correct your foot structure and bow legs gradually.
The shoes that you should wear for bow legs are running shoes which have plenty of cushioning which help to counter the shock that is produced when you have bow legs and walking.
Mid sole cushioning, heel cushioning and outer cushioning type running shoes are best for bow legs.
The type of jeans that are best for bow legs are straight fitting jeans that fall straight down from the thighs.
Avoid narrow or slim fit jeans or pants.
Bow legs typically disappear and go away by the age of 18 months to 24 months of age.
In babies and toddlers bow legs are a normal part of growth and not painful or uncomfortable and does not affect the child's ability to play, run or walk.
In older kids that develop bow legs they don't usually go away without surgery.
Most people children walk pretty normally with bow legs but they may trip a lot or appear clumsy in some cases.
The signs that you're bow legged is your knees don't touch while you stand with your feet and ankles together.
Bow legs in teenagers is most commonly caused by Blount disease which is a growth disorder that affects the bones of your lower leg which causes the legs to bow outward.
Blount disease can affect people at any time during the growth process but is more common in children younger than 4 and in teens.
During blount disease a lot of pressure is put on the growth plate at the top of your tibia.
The signs that your baby has bow legs are the baby's legs are wide apart or do not come together when they stand with their feet and ankles together.
A baby or child with bowed legs will also have a distinct space between the lower legs and their knees.
There's no way to prevent your baby from getting bow legs although you can help prevent the child from getting rickets and help with the bow legs by allowing the child to move around often and make sure your child is getting enough vitamin D and calcium in their diet.
Baby's bow legs can be fixed naturally and in most cases a baby's bow legs will straighten on their own with time as the baby grows into a child and into adulthood.
To fix your baby's bow legs naturally Vitamin D and calcium can help correct the bow legs and simply waiting.
Physiologic bow legs in babies do not require any treatment and will fix themselves as the child grows.
A child with blount disease will sometimes need a brace or surgery to fix the condition.
The most common cause of bow legs is a condition called physiologic genu varum.
When the baby was developing in the uterus (womb), they were in a cramped position.
Some of the baby's bones had to rotate while they were was in your uterus so they could fit in the small space.
However diapers when they get bulky or swell up from pee can make it harder for a baby or toddler to walk properly.
So diapers can affect walking and especially thick cloth diapers can affect walking more but diapers whether cloth or disposable diapers cannot and does not cause bow legs.
For a child to get bow legs a child must suffer from bowleg since birth and natural symptoms will disappear or lessen as the child grows up.
The bowed legs can be corrected gradually using an adjustable frame.
The surgeon cuts the bone and connects an adjustable external frame to it with wires and pins.
Early diagnosis and detection of bowlegs will help you and your child manage this condition.
Arthritis is the primary long-term effect of bowlegs, and it can be disabling.
When it's severe, it can affect the knees, feet, ankles, and hip joints because of the abnormal stresses applied.
If your child has bowlegs along with any of the following symptoms, they may have a more serious condition: bowlegs that continue to get worse after the age of 2.
In some cases, the underlying bowleg condition causes one leg to be shorter than the other.
This can also be corrected, using limb lengthening surgery.
Whether to worry depends on your child's age and the severity of the bowing.
Mild bowing in an infant or toddler under age 3 is typically normal and will get better over time.
However, bowed legs that are severe, worsening or persisting beyond age 3 should be referred to a specialist.