It is the dream of countless girls to have slim calves. But if it is too thin, it may be a disease. However, when the calves become thinner and thinner, Mengmeng (pseudonym) even hurts a lot when he walks. Go to the hospital to check, she is suffering from a rare genetic motor sensory neuropathy, commonly known as' crane legs'. 'health is the most important thing. Mengmeng said Monday that if she could find something wrong with her leg in time, she would not delay her illness.
Mengmeng is 20 years old, born in Enshi, Hubei Province. When she was in junior high school, she often practiced dancing at home. One time when practicing dancing, her left leg suddenly softened and she sprained her knee after falling down. Thinking it was a slight sprain, she opened several boxes of plasters in the local hospital. After the pain improved, she didn't care much.
'after college, my calves were getting thinner and thinner. At that time, I only thought it was nice to dance with my legs thin, but later when I practiced dancing, I found it difficult to squat down. "Mengmeng said that over time, she found that as long as she walked for more than 10 minutes, her ankles would be particularly painful. In addition, when going up the stairs, the knees are tight, the ankles are getting stiffer and stiffer, and they are limping.
According to Mengmeng's mother, in the past three years, she took Mengmeng to many local hospitals to see the disease, but no cause was found. Last week, it was introduced that she took Mengmeng to the foot and ankle surgery of the fourth hospital in Wuhan.
Xie Ming, the head of ankle surgery in the hospital, found that the cause of the clubfoot varus deformity was due to her 'hereditary motor sensory neuropathy', that is, the 'crane leg'.
'because of the inborn imbalance of muscle strength, the soles of the feet can not be completely landed. Over time, the Achilles tendon contracture, calcaneus deformation, muscle atrophy, leg thinning, legs look like cranes. "Xie Ming said that this genetic disease was born, but she was 20 years old when she was diagnosed. In fact, the sudden fall when dancing in junior high school, the difficulty in squatting down and the pain in the heel during college are all symptoms of this disease. Because of the long-term use of the left lateral malleolus to bear the weight and walk reluctantly, the high arch horseshoe deformity appears, which needs to be corrected by surgery. Later, they arranged for Mengmeng to have a horse's hoof deformity orthopedic operation, which is now recovering well.
Xie Ming introduced that the incidence of hereditary motor sensory neuropathy was only 1 / 2500, most of which began in children or adolescence, and most of the patients' muscle atrophy and weakness began from the lower leg and foot muscles, and gradually developed upward. If Mengmeng has the symptoms of squatting difficulty and heel pain, he can go to a special hospital for medical treatment and treatment, which can delay the development of the disease.