Doing okay, just a few minor issues.
Background: I was naturally duck-footed before the surgery. I told the doctors in Beijing not to fix it, but due to poor understanding or just forgetting to make note of the request, it ended up getting fixed anyway. When I got back to America I had my gait analyzed by an orthopedic surgeon who said I was flat footed now. I'm not sure if the flat footedness had anything to do with the duck foot correction or not. I don't know anything about the relationship between LL and flat feet in the absence of duck footendess.
In the last couple of years, I noticed not having enough room for my pinky toes in my shoes. Even wide toed shoes a size too big didn't give me enough room for the pinky toes, but there was lots and lots of room for the big toes. That told me something weird was going on rather than just my feet spreading out. I hypothesized that this might be a flat foot issue, so I looked up treatments for it and saw something about flat feet causing the ankles to roll inward, and that wearing high top shoes tied tightly around the ankles might provide some relief.
Bingo! Things got a lot better after wearing those for a while. Eventually they even caused me to form a habit, so now I can walk the same way in low tops as long as I periodically remind myself not to go back to the old flat footed, inward rolling way.
I speculate that elongated tibias can cause bad walking habits to develop, and that a little added support/reinforcement around the ankles is beneficial.
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