title: [Treatment of pediatric flat feet by shoe insoles : a scientific-based therapy?].
abstract: The differentiation of physiological pediatric flat feet and the pathological course as well as adequate initiation of therapeutic options represents a challenge the importance of which should not be underestimated. Fears and worries of parents and their insistence on inducement of therapeutic measures take center stage in the physician-patient relationship. The problem is that there are insufficient data from scientific studies dealing with the conservative treatment of flat feet in children. This paper intends to give a survey of the current status in the literature concerning indications and therapeutic success using insoles in the treatment of flat feet in children.
authors.affiliation: Orthopädische Klinik für die Universität Regensburg, Asklepios-Klinikum Bad Abbach, Kaiser-Karl-V.-Allee 3, 93077, Bad Abbach, Deutschland. j.goetz@asklepios.com
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Götz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grifka
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baier
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005413:Flatfoot / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D061826:Foot Orthoses; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome