Most patients with scoliosis are adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, and some of these patients have high degrees of scoliosis or have very rapid progression and can only be treated with surgery. One of the problems that parents of such patients are more concerned about is the growth and development of their children after scoliosis surgery. Can my child's height increase after the operation? Next, let Liao Bo, director of the Department of Orthopedic Spine Surgery of Tangdu Hospital of the Air Force Military Medical University, give a lecture to everyone.
Whether the child can grow tall after surgery is related to many factors!
This depends on the child's sex, age, growth potential, type of scoliosis, range of fixation, postoperative exercise, and other factors. Although there are many of these factors, the single most important correlation is the growth potential of the child.
In general, adolescents aged 10-13 have the highest proportion of height growth, which varies from person to person. If a child's growth potential is gone, even if he does or does not have surgery, he has no chance of growing taller. However, if the child still has growth potential, through appropriate surgery, retain his growth and development potential, and there is no potential for the growth and development of the fixed vertebral body, the patient can still grow tall after surgery.
After orthopedic surgery, the child will immediately increase his height by a few centimeters!
In addition to the postoperative period, the child gradually grows taller with his own growth and development, and through the orthopedic of lateral bending, there will be a timely increase in height after the operation, generally an immediate increase of 5-8 cm.
In fact, this phenomenon is also relatively easy to understand, after straightening the patient's crooked spine, the height will immediately become higher, which is about the child's original height. In the case of director Liao Bo's team having done a number of scoliosis cases, many children will increase by 7 cm and 8 cm after surgery, and the height increase of children during postoperative review is very obvious, and they are more confident and their physical fitness has also become better.
Scoliosis affects height, promote early detection and early intervention!
Just like the above lateral bending will affect the child's height, the spine deviates from the normal axis and bends to the left or right, reducing the child's original height and looking shorter than his peers. The more severe the scoliosis, the more serious the impact on height, especially during the peak of adolescent growth and development. In addition, severe scoliosis not only brings about changes in appearance, but also affects the patient's cardiopulmonary function.
Therefore, it is very important to detect scoliosis early and intervene as soon as possible, if parents find that their children have high and low shoulders, long and short legs, sitting posture and walking posture abnormalities, we must pay attention to it.
In short, if you pay more attention to your child's height, you must closely observe the child's physical condition. If scoliosis is found, intervention should be done as early as possible. If your child's condition is severe and requires surgery, you can ask your doctor before the operation. The doctor will combine a variety of factors to evaluate, of which the child's growth potential is a single relevant factor, the doctor according to the child's situation to make a surgical plan, as far as possible to retain the growth potential.