Naiad seat

With Najadensitz (by: Naiad ) a sitting posture is called that children up to the entry into puberty often take. It corresponds to an upside down cross- legged position , the hip joints are rotated inwards instead of outwards so that the child sits between the lower legs.

root cause

The reason for this childlike preference is the fact that the femoral necks show increased anteversion in youth , i.e. the femoral heads are turned more forward than in the adult skeleton. As a result, children like to turn their legs inward, which is reflected in the gait pattern ("kneeing-in", " running over the great uncle ") and in the naiad seat. These signs are also known as "anteversion syndrome".

Rating

As long as only the inward rotation of the legs is preferred, but the external rotation is not restricted, it is a completely normal condition that does not require any therapy. It is also not necessary to keep the children from the naiad seat: this is a symptom of the physiological development of the growing skeleton and not an expression or even the cause of an illness.

literature

Carl Joachim Wirth: Orthopedic Practice , Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart / New York, 2001, ISBN 3-13-125683-4