Can haveing one leg bowed cause injuries to the lower leg (below knee)? If so, is there anything specific I can do to help fix this (aside from surgery)? It also seems that my feet crossover a bit when I run, which makes sense.
Can haveing one leg bowed cause injuries to the lower leg (below knee)? If so, is there anything specific I can do to help fix this (aside from surgery)? It also seems that my feet crossover a bit when I run, which makes sense.
I, too, have this. I believe surgery can help, but I suspect an injury caused it first? So maybe not, depending.
Try a wedge in your bowed side shoe, one that will make you pronate. But realize, there's no free lunch, so you're just off-loaded to somewhere else. In this cause, your lower back on that side. Tell me more.
I do not believe an injury caused the bowed leg. Can you recommend a type wedge online or the name of one? I really would like to avoid any surgery.
Something like this one, keep in your shoe all the time (under the insole, a bit forward of the rear of the shoe so your heel lies in the center of it). If you run heel-first or flat-footed, you can have it in there, too. If you run "on your toes" you can get full-foot wedges like this, but will have to tape it down or it will move in about five seconds. You'll also have an imbalance issue compared to your other shoe, which you can address with a simple Spenco or whatever insole in the other shoe.
Also, depending, you can look for an "unloader" knee brace.
https://www.ossur.com/oa-solutions/oa-products/oa-knee/custom-oa-braces/unloader-one-custom
And I'd like to meet YOUR doctor. I've yet to find a doctor who agrees to operate on my problematic leg!