| \u00a0<\/td> | Long leg<\/strong><\/td>Short leg<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>Foot<\/strong><\/td>| Pronation<\/td> | Supination<\/td><\/tr> | Ankle <\/strong><\/td>| Dorsal Flexion<\/td> | Plantar Flexion<\/td><\/tr> | Hip<\/strong><\/td>| Flexion, Internal Rotation <\/td> | Extension, External Rotation<\/td><\/tr> | Pelvis<\/strong><\/td>| Posterior rotation<\/td> | Anterior rotation<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/span>Adverse musculoskeletal factors<\/span><\/h2>\n\n- Low back pain
- The scientific literature suggests that a shorter leg will affect the lumbar curve by creating a lumbar scoliosis.
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- Leads to a:
- Pelvic obliquity in the frontal plane (1).<\/li>
- Lumbosacral facet joint angles appear smaller on the short side
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- Hip pain
- A longer leg can be a predisposing factor for hip osteoarthritis.
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- As length increases, the contact area\/weight of the femoral head decreases.
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- Combined with increased hip abductor tone caused by an extended distance between origin and insertion and increased GRF puts the longer leg at risk.
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- Stress Fractures
- A greater incidence of stress fractures in the tibia, metatarsals, and femur of the longer leg seems consistent with the greater forces emitted through the longer leg described under hip pain.
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<\/span>Therapeutic approach<\/span><\/h2>\n\n- Muscle stretch<\/li>
- Lumbar, lumbosacral and pelvic mobilization<\/li>
- Aquafit<\/li>
- Plantar support<\/li>
- Heel lift<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
More than 50% of people have a slight difference in the length of their legs. These slight variations do not usually cause problems. However, for the small percentage of people with a leg length difference greater than 2 cm, the length difference can affect their well-being and quality of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteomag.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteomag.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteomag.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteomag.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteomag.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osteomag.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteomag.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteomag.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteomag.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteomag.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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