Lift your head up! Sit up straight!
Chest! Stand up straight!
Has there ever been such a picture-like childhood? Growing up, teachers and parents always asked us to do this, and it wasn't until today that we found out how good it was to listen to them.
At the age when he should have stood tall and tall, he curled up in his seat with his head bowed and hunched over his waist for a day, but the figures of overweight school bags and teenagers shrugging their shoulders unconsciously for a long time seemed to be "shackled" invisibly.
Abnormal curvature of the spine is one of the common diseases that endanger the health of children and adolescents. Minor spinal curvature abnormalities will affect the posture and posture of children and adolescents, at the beginning due to the imbalance of the point of action of spinal force, adolescents are prone to fatigue and back discomfort, such as long-term non-intervention, deformity and pain will be aggravated, severe will damage the spinal cord and nerve roots, and even cause paralysis. At the same time, abnormal curvature of the spine can also hinder the function and development of internal organs, such as the deformity of the ribs and thoracic cage caused by spinal irregularities, which will further cause cardiopulmonary dysfunction, resulting in cardiopulmonary failure.
In general, girls are more likely to have abnormal spinal curvature, because girls have weaker muscles and ligaments than boys, and have less time to exercise. In addition, the rapid growth of height during puberty, more organic components in the bone and relatively insufficient calcium and phosphorus content, the muscle ligaments around the spine are not mature, the academic burden of students is heavy, the sitting time is long, and the detection rate of abnormal curvature of the spine is further increased with the continuous increase of students' pressure to go to school, and reaches a peak in the stage of puberty.
tips：
The triggers for abnormal curvature of the spine are generally divided into the following four points:
Long-term poor posture habits
Lack of nutrients
Insufficient physical exercise
The height of the desks and chairs does not match the height
Tips for self-examination:
If your child has back pain, walking, standing, sitting abnormally, etc., you can do some simple tests at home:
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Four horizontal and one vertical: let the child expose the upper body, stand with his back to the parents, check whether the shoulders and the lower angle of the shoulder blade are symmetrical, whether the waist is symmetrical, whether the height of the bilateral iliac spines is consistent, and whether the spine connection deviates from the midline;
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Anterior flexion test: let the child's heels together, legs straight, torso forward 90 °, hands together between the knees, from behind the child to check whether the back, waist sides of the symmetry, unequal height phenomenon, no abnormality is normal.
3
If there is an abnormality, the subject is slowly moved to the spine, and the extension, flexion, scoliosis, and torsional movements are checked again after 2 times each, if normal, it is a temporary scoliosis caused by fatigue, which is a normal situation.
4
If there are still abnormalities, you should go to a professional orthopedic clinic to seek medical treatment in time and treat and correct it as soon as possible.
So how do we prevent abnormal curvature in the spine in daily life?
Develop a good sitting posture
Ensure that when the teenager reads and writes, the chest is punched from the edge of the table, the eyes are one foot away from the book, and the fingers are one inch away from the tip of the pen. As far as possible, the teacher corrects the student's poor posture so that it maintains a balanced and stable posture that is not easy to fatigue.
Ensure adequate exercise
Ensure that students have sufficient time to participate in sports activities, especially to strengthen parallel bars, balance beams, jumping boxes, mat sports, gymnastics and other sports that can strengthen the waist, back, abdomen, shoulder muscles, play a role in spine health care.
Desks and chairs are of the right height
Schools should check regularly at the end of each semester and at the beginning of the semester, adjust in time, and improve the pass rate of desks and chairs.
Strengthens nutrition
Adolescents should consume foods rich in high-quality protein and calcium, moderate sun exposure, increase bone density, promote muscle growth, and enhance the stability of the spine.
At present, Minhang District has listed spinal curvature abnormalities as a physical examination item for students to seek early detection, early diagnosis and early intervention. On this basis, parents should pay attention to this, in daily life to supervise the exercise of adolescents and children and master the correct body posture, schools should also be in physical education classes, large inter-class sports activities to integrate spinal exercise into the activity content, and increase the relevant courses of spine health, so that knowledge transfer and activity exercise combined, to ensure that students can recognize the importance of the spine in the human body.
Only when parents and schools work together to pay attention to the spine health of young children and young people, can our light of hope stand on the stage of the future with a healthy body and a straight posture to write a new chapter.
Source: Minhang Disease Control