A Therapeutic Program for the Flat Feet and its Impact to the Degree of Pain in Middle School Students in Al-Qadisiyah Governorate

Abstract

Scientific research is a basic pillar and sports medicine is considered one of the branches of science. One of the injuries is the injury of the flat feet and how to evaluate this deformity, which leads to the appearance of pain when practicing sports and according to the scientific measurements adopted by the researcher and using the foot scan to reach fruitful results and know the weaknesses to overcome the obstacles and difficulties facing the owners of flat feet. This research was supported by consultation with many medical specialists, as they stressed the existence of a correlation between flat feet and the degree of pain among practitioners of sports. This led the researcher to the importance of this problem and the need to develop a program based on this deformation and according to this work, the researcher reached the results, the more the comb of the foot moves away from the line of travel, the greater the angle between the longitudinal axis of the foot and the direction of walking, which led to increased pain in the injured. The larger the foot impression, the greater the degree of pain in the injured and the more there is an imbalance in the foot that led to the lack of distribution of strength between the metatarsals and the heel of the foot. Through the above research and its results, the researcher recommends the need to rely on these therapeutic exercises to repair this deformity because the sample is at the age of (13-15), that is, in the developmental stage.