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Recently, a 13-year-old girl in Hengshui, Hebei Province, was sent to the hospital for severe scoliosis. After diagnosis, the doctor said that this is caused by a long-term poor sitting posture, and if it is not intervened in time, it will cause serious consequences such as high and low shoulders, long and short legs, and body deformities.
Of course, more than one child, according to the early circulation data of the Spine Disease Prevention and Control Committee of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, combined with authoritative journals and domestic expert consensus, it is expected that the number of scoliosis in primary and secondary school students in mainland China has exceeded 5 million, and it is still increasing at a rate of about 300,000 per year. Scoliosis has become the third major disease that endangers the health of children and adolescents on the mainland after obesity and myopia.
I've seen an 8-year-old child have scoliosis.
And such cases are now more and more common.
There are even smaller ones.
And scoliosis is very insidious in the early stage, if you do not pay attention, it is difficult to find, when the parents find out, often has reached a very serious.
So, what bad habits can cause a child to develop scoliosis? How can parents find out in time? Today's article, I will explain these problems to you clearly, I hope that such mistakes can be avoided by everyone.
How to define scoliosis
To what extent is it defined as "scoliosis"?
Liu Haiying, head of the National Working Group for the Prevention and Control of Scoliosis in Children and Adolescents and Director of the Department of Spine Surgery of Peking University People's Hospital: Scoliosis is a deformity caused by the spine deviating from the normal midline, and it is also accompanied by the rotation of the spine, like twisting twist, it is a rotation, and there is a lateral posterior protrusion, which is called scoliosis in the whole.
the dangers of scoliosis,
The older the child, the more severe it will be
The harm of scoliosis in children is very large. It not only affects posture and posture, but also has a direct impact on health, life and labor, learning and social interaction.
Severe scoliosis also adds heavy psychological pressure and mental burden to the child,
Scoliosis can cause thoracic deformities, resulting in a reduction in thoracic capacity and a corresponding decrease in the range of motion of the thoracic cage;
The convex lung tissue of scoliosis is severely compressed, the lung development is incomplete, the lung capacity is small, and even the lung is atelectasis, which in turn affects cardiac function.
More severely, scoliosis can cause compression of the spinal cord and nerve roots. Compression of the nerve roots causes paralysis or radiation pain in the area innervated by the corresponding nerve roots; Severe compression of the spinal cord can cause paralysis.
Liu Haiying, head of the National Working Group for the Prevention and Control of Scoliosis in Children and Adolescents and Director of the Department of Spine Surgery at Peking University People's Hospital: After middle age, the spine and other organs are also aging, and some are producing an adult degenerative scoliosis. The deformation and proliferation of the spine will cause narrowing of the spinal canal, which will produce these symptoms of low back pain and lower limbs.
How to spot if a child is
Scoliosis is present
Since early scoliosis does not have symptoms such as low back pain, when parents find that their child's spine has become crooked, most of them are in the middle and late stages. Therefore, it is recommended that parents take a minute every once in a while to do a spinal examination for their children, and can judge whether scoliosis is scoliosis by "four horizontal and one vertical" 5 lines, and any 1 abnormality in these 5 lines is a torso asymmetry.
Step 1:
Look at whether the child's shoulders are of equal height, if there is an obvious "one shoulder high, one shoulder low", indicating that there is a phenomenon of high and low shoulders.
Step 2:
Touch the shoulder blades on your child's back with your hands to see if the bottom of the two shoulder blades is of equal height.
Step 3:
Look at whether the waist socket is symmetrical
Step 4:
And the back we can touch the iliac crest, is it in a line
Step 5:
Let the child bend over, and the parent uses the middle and index fingers to draw down along the "spinal process" to see if a normal straight line can be drawn; touch and compare whether there are bulges on both sides of the child's waist and back.
In addition, in addition to the above appearance observations, we can also perform self-testing through a simple movement (forward flexion experiment).
Action essentials: Let the child have his heels together, his legs straight, his torso bent forward by 90 degrees, his hands folded, and his upper limbs perpendicular to the ground. If there is a deformation of the spine, there will be a high asymmetry between the two sides, which is medically called razorback deformity.
As long as one of the 5 steps finds abnormalities, you should take your child to the hospital as soon as possible so as not to miss the best time for treatment.
The most likely cause scoliosis in children
4 wrong postures
In addition to the complex causes of scoliosis, including congenital scoliosis and idiopathic scoliosis, some misplaced practices or poor posture in life are also common causes of scoliosis in children.
Many children grow up with high and low shoulders, scoliosis, etc., which are not formed in a day, and are likely to lay the root of the curse when the child is very young, especially the following wrong practices.
1
Within 2 months, hold the baby vertically for a long time
Affects spinal development
A mother struggled for months about whether she could hold her baby vertically:
My baby will turn 2 months next week, basically every day is lying flat, not lying on the bed or lying in the cart, the baby in the month for a while always wants to hold vertically, a horizontal hug will cry. Can the baby hold it upright? How old is it to hold?
Whether a baby can hold it upright has always been a controversial topic.
Some experts discourage holding your baby too early, mainly to protect your baby's spine. The four curvatures of the spine (anterior neck, posterior thorax, anterior lumbar, and posterior sacral curvature) in normal people have not yet formed in infancy. Long-term vertical holding will increase the pressure between the vertebral bodies and affect the development of the baby's spine.
But some experts believe that the baby can be held vertically after birth. Vertical hugging can train children's heads to stand up, and children can broaden their horizons, get more information, and improve their cognitive level. If the child is always lying down, only the monotonous ceiling can be seen.
The views of both groups of experts are reasonable, who should we listen to?
Our recommendations are:
1. Do not hold your baby vertically for a long time
Within 3 months, too small a baby is not absolutely unable to hold vertically, such as when burping the baby after feeding, it is necessary to hold it vertically, but the time to hold the baby vertically is not too long.
2. Be sure to pay attention to posture when holding vertically to protect your baby's spine
When you need to hold your baby upright, the mother must support the baby's head (back neck) and back. Keep your baby's body close to your mother's body, and your baby's head can rest on your mother's shoulder.
02
Cocked legs
Long-term stilted legs will make the spine change from the normal "S" shape to the "C" shape, so that the spine is compressed, and in the case of uneven force, there will be deformation, high and low shoulders and other symptoms!
In fact, not only children, many of us adults also like this action, from today onwards to change yo.
03
Wrong sitting position
The sitting posture should also pay attention to the following "W" sitting posture that maintains physical stability, which is likely to cause the pelvis to expand outward, deform the knee joint, and even cause spinal bulge!
In addition to this sitting posture, what other postures and movements will increase the load on the spine?
Liu Haiying, head of the National Working Group for the Prevention and Control of Scoliosis in Children and Adolescents and Director of the Department of Spine Surgery at Peking University People's Hospital: Poor sitting posture or poor backing of the backpack, the height of the stool, including the height of the table and chair, these may lead to scoliosis. If you say that in the case of lying down, between the spine, between the vertebral body and the vertebral body, if its pressure is 1, then the middle pressure is 2 when you stand up, and then the pressure in your sitting situation is 4 times, if the sitting posture is not good, the ass is pinched, and the load on the waist and sacrum can reach 8 times. In the case of bending over, carrying heavy things, this load is greater, even reaching more than 10 times. Once no problem, but over time, the intervertebral disc will age prematurely, degenerate, and proliferate, and then produce degenerative lateral bending, some slippage or some narrowing, and one or that problem will appear.
In addition, if you habitually use poor postures such as lying on one side to read books and reading mobile phones in ordinary life, it will also lead to muscle tension on one side and elongated muscles on the other side, which can easily cause scoliosis.