次男と歩く - 足の矯正器具

次男が病気をした時、脳神経も含めて影響を受けた為、足に影響が出ています。

歩くことについては特に問題ない次男ですが、足のつき方や足首の角度などに健常者とは異なる動きがあります。動きというよりは角度と言うのが正しいかもしれません。

子供病院に紹介された、矯正器具を作成するクリニックに、次男と一緒に行ってきました。

最新のテクノロジーって言うんですかね、次男の足に触ることなく、機械で次男の足を少し離れた場所からスキャンして足型をとる。

初めて見る機会でした。

形としては、電気ドリルのような形をしていて、そこからストロボライトが点滅するように照射されて、次男の足形を瞬時にコンピューターに取り込んでいく。

しかし次男にとっては、ストロボライトが点滅するだけで、普段の生活には無いものであり、怖いと感じるのかもしれません。

最初は大変でした。

足に誰かが触るわけではありませんが、次男にとっては何をされるのか分からず、じっとしていられませんでした。

じっとしていられないだけではなく、次男は泣きじゃくり、足を見られるだけでいい気分がしなかったのかもしれません。

それでも、クリニックの方々はとても忍耐強く次男が落ち着くのを待ってくれて、何とか作業がおわりました。


3Dプリンターで作られた次男の足首の為のサポート器具が出来当たったのは、1週間後でした。

次男を連れて再度クリニックを訪れ、問題が無いかフィッティングを行いました。

片方の足で遊んでいる間に、サポート器具をはめて、問題無いかを確認する。

クリニックの人も予期していたのか、次男が嫌がるであろうことから、そんな手法でフィッティングを終了させました。

パットなどを固定したあと、実際に靴を履いて歩いてみる。

そんな確認をしようとしましたが、次男は椅子から立ち上がった時に普段とは異なる違和感を感じたのでしょうか、サポート器具を外して欲しいと言い出しました。

靴を履いて歩く所を見たかったクリニックのスタッフですが、次男があまりにも嫌がることから、歩く様子をこの日に確認するのを諦めました。

自宅で次男が靴を履いた状態で、サポート器具を取り付けて慣れさせ、その後アポを取りなおしてクリニックに様子を見せに行くことになりました。

ちょうど次男は1週間程の春休みであり、自宅にいるこの1週間の間に、サポート器具を付けて靴を履くことになれてくれればと思います。

When my second son was sick, his legs were affected because his cranial nerves were affected as well.

My second son has no problems with walking, but there are some movements in the way he puts his feet and the angle of his ankles that are different from those of normal people. It may be more correct to call it an angle rather than a movement.

I went with my second son to a clinic that creates orthopedic devices, which was referred to me by Children's Hospital.

I guess you could call it the latest technology. Without touching my second son's feet, a machine scanned his feet from a short distance away and took a footprint of them.

It was my first opportunity to see it.

In shape, the machine looked like an electric drill, from which a strobe light was emitted in a flashing manner to instantly capture my second son's footprint into the computer.

To my second son, however, the flashing strobe light was something that was not part of his normal life, and he might find it scary.

It was difficult at first.

It is not like someone is touching his feet, but for my second son, he could not sit still because he did not know what they were going to do to him.

Not only could he not sit still, but he was crying and probably did not feel good just by looking at his feet.

Nevertheless, the clinic staff was very patient and waited for my son to calm down, and we managed to finish the work.

It was a week later that the 3D printed support device for my son's ankle was ready.

I took him to the clinic again for a fitting to see if there were any problems.

While he was playing with one of his legs, They fitted him with the support device to make sure there were no problems.

The clinic staff was anticipating that my second son would not like it, so they ended the fitting with such a method.

After fixing the pads, etc., he actually put on the shoes and walked around.

They tried to do such a check, but my second son felt a different sense of discomfort than usual when he got up from the chair, perhaps, and he asked me to remove the support device.

The clinic staff wanted to see him walk with the shoes on, but he was so reluctant to do so that we gave up trying to see him walk on that day.

We decided to let him get used to wearing the shoes at home with the support device attached, and then make an appointment to go back to the clinic to see how he was doing.

He is just on spring break for about a week, and I am hoping that during this week at home, he will get used to wearing the shoes with the support device.