DBDavid Bratt

1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Dr David Bratt

   Understanding intoeing in children (opens the original)

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   In­toe­ing hap­pens when the feet turn in­wards when walk­ing. It is al­so known as pi­geon toes for ob­vi­ous rea­sons. It is very com­mon and oc­curs in about one in every four chil­dren un­der the age of six years, when it spon­ta­neous­ly dis­ap­pears. On the whole, no treat­ment is ever need­ed. How­ev­er, it’s an­oth­er of those pesky leg ap­pear­ances that make par­ents con­cerned. As men­tioned last week, in­toe­ing makes chil­dren prone to trip­ping, or look awk­ward when walk­ing or ru

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2. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Dr David Bratt

   The legs of children (opens the original)

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   There are two oth­er com­mon leg prob­lems that both­er par­ents. They are: 1) tod­dlers who trip and fall and 2) grow­ing pains in young chil­dren. Small chil­dren, who have just learned to walk, trip and fall a lot. This may cause fam­i­ly mem­bers to be­lieve that some­thing is wrong with the child’s mus­cles or worse, their brain. This is pos­si­ble but quite rare. Most chil­dren nor­mal­ly trip and fall a lot be­cause their gait is im­ma­ture and they are in the ex­plorato­ry phase of walk­

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3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Dr David Bratt

   Bow legs: When to worry and when not to (opens the original)

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   Bow legs (med­ical­ly called genu varum) are a con­di­tion in which a child’s legs curve out­ward at the knees. When a child with bow legs stands, their an­kles may touch but their knees re­main apart. Bow legs are nor­mal in new­born ba­bies and chil­dren up to the age of two years. In their de­sire to have their child look like those re­al­ly ab­nor­mal ba­bies in mag­a­zines, some par­ents have dif­fi­cul­ty ac­cept­ing this. In the past, an en­tire in­dus­try de­vel­oped to treat bow legs, i

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4. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Dr David Bratt

   Flat feet in children (opens the original)

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   Chil­dren’s feet are quite dif­fer­ent from adult feet and legs. Adult-ori­ent­ed doc­tors of­ten mis­di­ag­nose nor­mal tod­dler feet as be­ing “flat” and “ab­nor­mal”, when they are per­fect. For ex­am­ple, the arch­es. Adult feet have three arch­es which func­tion as a spring mech­a­nism to sup­port body weight, ab­sorb shock, and help you move ef­fi­cient­ly. Arch­es usu­al­ly form by the time the child is 3 or 4 years old. Un­der the age of three, chil­dren do not have arch­es. That is nor­

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5. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Dr David Bratt

   When snoring is no laughing matter (opens the original)

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   For some rea­son, peo­ple al­ways laugh when I ask if their child snores. “Of course he does; he like his fa­ther” is the com­mon an­swer. Snor­ing is so com­mon that it is con­sid­ered nor­mal, harm­less. It is not! Forty-five per cent of adults snore at least oc­ca­sion­al­ly, and 25 per cent are ha­bit­u­al snor­ers. Prob­lem snor­ing is more fre­quent in males and over­weight per­sons, and it usu­al­ly grows worse with age. It is not un­known in chil­dren. About one in four chil­dren snore.

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