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"Mom, I can't stand up"
Seeing a news story that made me both distressed and afraid.
A 6-year-old girl, when she completed the punch card homework of the dance class at home and practiced her lower back, the child felt that it was difficult and fell down before she had time to ask for help.
(Lower back in dance)
The mother threw down the mobile phone that took the video, ran over to help her daughter, and found that the child's two legs could not stand.
CT scans showed no fractures and edema was found at the spinal cord.
The initial diagnosis is spinal cord injury.
(Schematic)
Hearing the words "spinal cord injury," my heart sank.
The first impression of this disease was the famous gymnast Sunland.
She was injured in the spinal cord at that time, and the United States, as the host country of the competition, used the most advanced medical technology, but still could not reverse the high paraplegia.
If this is the result, there is really no way for a 6-year-old child to accept it.
The blow to a family is even more devastating.
In recent years, the news of the lower back causing the child to paralyze has emerged endlessly.
In 2017, Wenwen, a 6-year-old girl in Xiangyang, practiced her lower back at home and accidentally fell, resulting in paralysis of both lower limbs.
In 2018, Tang Tang, a 5-year-old girl from Pingdingshan, fell down while practicing her lower back in a dance class and could not move from below her neck.
In 2019, Tong Tong, a 6-year-old girl in Henan, practiced her lower back at a dance institution and suddenly lost consciousness in her legs, and the doctor said that the child had almost no possibility of standing up again.
A set of data from Beijing Bo'ai Hospital shows that in the five years from 2015 to 2019, the hospital admitted a total of 78 children with spinal cord injuries caused by exercise, of which 75 children were caused by the lower back.
What parents can't figure out is that if you dance, how can your child become like this?
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"Dance", how did the child become paralyzed?
The survey shows that 43.2% of parents will choose dance classes for their children among the choices of interest classes.
4 out of 10 children are learning to dance, and many parents are ignorant of the dangers of "lower back".
Just last month, my girlfriend's daughter played "lower waist" as a game at school with her classmates.
At night, when the child came home, he cried out that his waist hurt and his legs were numb, and his girlfriend wanted to take the child to the emergency department, and the father felt that it was unnecessary to make a fuss
(Good thing there was no danger)
The lower back, which is one of the basic skills of dance, is of course considered harmless.
It is often seen that the dance teacher shouts the trumpet and leads a group of children to practice.
Legs, brushed up, waist, neatly bent over...
Such a scene makes parents feel "professional".
(The circled child can't get up, but the teacher doesn't notice it)
In the general perception, "children have soft bones and good flexibility, and pressing a pressure and breaking a break is a good time to practice child skills."
But also because of softness, if there is no strength and control, it is actually easier to get hurt.
Shen Zhipeng, deputy director of the Department of Neurosurgery of Zhejiang University Children's Hospital, once pointed out: "The same movement and intensity, adults may directly fracture after doing it, but it will not affect the spinal cord." ”
When a child is injured, it often points directly to the spinal cord.
"It's like using a pair of scissors to cut off the spinal cord like a tofu brain." Circulating blood is blocked and nerves die in ischemia. ”
Han Tongli, chief physician of the Department of Neurology at Beijing Children's Hospital, described spinal cord injury this way.
"Cutting" this time, 70% of children "cut" into a complete spinal cord injury, the possibility of standing up again is almost zero.
The child has become a small baby who needs to be taken care of all the time.
Urination requires a urinary catheter and urination every few hours.
Stools require open lotion, urinary tract infections and kidney stones are common complications.
Because there is no sensation, burns and fractures occur from time to time.
Rehabilitation is done day after day to fight against rapidly atrophiing muscles.
Time! energy! money! Keep up with it.
A simple action that drags the whole family into the abyss.
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Regret makes the child
"Hold on"
Many parents recall that before their children had an accident, they had shouted pain and tiredness, but they were all regarded as "trying to be lazy and find excuses".
Children are always asked to "stick to it, others can do it, why can't you?" ”
In several accidents, the child has been crying in pain, the movements are deformed, the teacher has not found the abnormality, and is still asking the child" Do you want to continue?" ”
It is this persistence that makes the damage worse.
Just because a child can walk or move doesn't mean there's no problem.
Spinal cord injuries are often not immediate.
Many children start with only weak legs, sore numbness, and after a few hours, the lower limbs begin to lose consciousness and urinate and urinate incontinence.
The slowest episodes sometimes take up to 3 days.
After a spinal cord injury, the teacher massages the child without knowing it, picks the child up like this, and dangles his two legs like noodles, which is a very wrong behavior and will cause further damage.
Children with spinal cord injury must not be held, carried or carried on canvas soft stretchers, and must be 120 at the first time, told to the spine plate, and waited for professional rescue in situ.
Whether the child is learning dance, martial arts or taekwondo, tell the child: do a good job of warming up, do what you can, and ask for help as soon as you feel uncomfortable.
No professional one-on-one protection, no waist!
I also told the child's teacher that my child could not do the action, not hard to do.
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Dancing ≠ practicing
The original intention of this article is not to let parents "talk about dance color change" and stay away from dancing.
Dance should not carry this pot either.
Instead, I hope that before enrolling children in classes, they will do their own homework, clarify their goals, and strengthen their ability to select professional institutions.
If the agency tells you that "learning to dance without practicing is the difference between dancing and square dancing", you can turn around and go black.
The core of a child's learning to dance should never be practice.
Mr. Lu Yisheng, a dancer who was the president of the Beijing Dance Academy and vice chairman of the China Dancers Association, wrote an open letter "to dance teachers in the country".
Elder Lü pointed out bitterly:
Dancing ≠ practice, aesthetic education≠ dance skills training, they are two different things.
Professional dance training is not like acrobatics, the sooner the better.
Professional training should be set after the age of 12, and this is true for both Chinese and foreign dance majors.
Because at this time, the children's bones, muscles, joints and nervous system have basically matured, and the brain is relatively well developed and suitable for education.
Jiang Guiping, a professor at the School of Physical Education and Sports of Beijing Normal University, also pointed out that the lower back is the basic movement of dance, but the foundation does not mean simple.
The implication is that not every child can practice.
Why do so many institutions insist on practicing knowing this?
Because the lower waist split fork is the most direct way for parents to see the difference between their children and children who do not practice dance.
"Draw really like, play really fast, sing really high, softness is really good"!
Children's artistic enlightenment should not be such a simple and crude utilitarian pursuit.
In the enlightenment stage, the recognition of the sense of dance, the feeling of melody, and the interest in dancing are the most important.
Dancing should be happy!
As the last ballet teacher said:
The most gratifying thing for me is to see my girls dancing gracefully and confidently when they wear beautiful skirts;
Seeing my boys show their gentlemanly demeanor in dance...
As for what forks, what lower back, who cares? ”
This is also the original intention of sending our children to learn dance!
In the face of safety, any risk of disregarding the child's injury should be stopped!