Let Dr. Li take you to a simple understanding of scoliosis to help parents and children better cope with scoliosis.
When we look at the child's spine from the back, the normal spine should be in a straight line from the front to the back. If it bends to the left or right and is greater than 10 degrees, it is called scoliosis.
Scoliosis has become a frequently-occurring disease among adolescents aged 7 ~ 14 in China, with a prevalence rate of 3% ~ 5%, which means that at least 3 children in China 100 are scoliosis.
In the investigation of teenagers aged 35 1 7 15, it was found that the scoliosis of these teenagers was mostly between 10 and 40 degrees, and the scoliosis rate reached 1.02%. Moreover, the survey also found that in 35 1 of the respondents, the number of girls with lateral curvature is 10 times that of boys. Then why is scoliosis more common in teenagers?
Physiologically speaking, teenagers are in a period of rapid bone development, at which the toughness and strength of bones are not enough and the plasticity is strong. Compared with boys, girls' bones are more flexible but less stable. Skeletal development is easily influenced by external factors, so teenagers are more likely to suffer from scoliosis.
Judging from the living habits, the posture of teenagers watching homework at school can easily affect the development of bones. Because teenagers' bones are immature and fragile, they are prone to backache after sitting for a while, and they can't help but want to lie on the table and choose their own comfortable way. But long-term bad sitting posture can easily lead to scoliosis.
From the parents' point of view, many parents actually lack care about their children's physical problems. In the face of children doing homework, playing electronic equipment or watching TV, sitting posture is rarely corrected. Even if it is mentioned occasionally, it may be that I didn't supervise myself in place and didn't take measures to correct the bad sitting posture.
At present, scoliosis has become the "third killer" endangering the health of children and adolescents in China. The harm of scoliosis to teenagers is not only manifested in the body, but also in the influence on children's mental health.
Mild scoliosis, the explicit characteristics are not obvious, and the initial harm is not great. However, when scoliosis becomes serious, the body shape of teenagers begins to change obviously, and the muscles become extremely tired and painful. Chest compression and deformation lead to dyspnea, decreased exercise ability, affecting patients' cardiopulmonary function, and even cardiopulmonary failure.
At the same time, severe scoliosis will compress nerves, leading to frequent compression neuralgia. In the long run, it will lead to spinal paralysis, affect consciousness and cause paralysis. It can be seen that scoliosis has brought great harm to the health of teenagers.
Scoliosis also has a great influence on the mental health of teenagers. When teenagers grow up, their self-esteem gradually forms and they begin to care about what others think of them. Because other children's values are not formed, it is easy to point fingers at other people's posture problems, but I don't know that this is also hurting scoliosis patients.
Children with severe scoliosis, influenced by other people's words, are prone to inferiority complex. At this time, children are slowly reluctant to communicate with others, and after a long time, they are easily sensitive, inferior and withdrawn. However, if the child has psychological problems, the influence on the child can accompany him for life. Even if the disease is cured, the scar in his heart will be difficult to heal.
Therefore, it is necessary to find and treat the lateral spinal canal early, care for the children in scoliosis as parents and friends, and let the children feel warm and caring.
Among the patients contacted, many parents only corrected the diagnosis and treatment when they found that their children had obvious high and low shoulders and uneven or curved backs. At this point, the general lateral curvature of the spine has exceeded 40 degrees. Unfortunately, the best treatment opportunity is often missed at this time. Therefore, early prevention and early detection are particularly important for the treatment of scoliosis.
Below, I will teach you to see the symptoms of scoliosis from some detailed signals and conduct early screening of scoliosis. Parents and friends can also pay attention to:
If you find that the neckline of the child is not on a horizontal line when wearing clothes, but the neckline is biased to one side, and the shoulders are also looked at from height to height. When carrying a schoolbag, this kind of uneven shoulder is more obvious, and scoliosis should be considered.
When there is thoracic deformity, asymmetry and obvious high and low chest, we should also pay attention to the harm caused by scoliosis. Especially for adolescent girls, scoliosis will not only lead to spinal deformation, but also lead to uneven development of girls' breasts, which is very easy to hurt and affect children's body and mind.
Scoliosis will cause some compression on the lower limbs. Once severe scoliosis occurs, it will be found that the hip bones and waist on both sides of the child are asymmetrical. At the same time, it is also reflected in the asymmetry of skin lines on thighs or buttocks.
Scoliosis causes uneven stress on the waist, which causes fat accumulation on one side of the waist and causes skin wrinkles. Take the navel as the dividing line and look at the waist. Once you find fat accumulation and wrinkles on one side of the waist and no obvious wrinkles on the other side, you should pay attention.
Parents let their children stand side by side with their legs bent back to themselves. At this time, parents draw the child's spine down with their forefinger and middle finger. If it is a straight line, the child's spine is normal. But it is not a straight line, but a curve, indicating the possibility of scoliosis, which needs further examination by doctors.
Parents let their children stand facing themselves, bow their heads, naturally hang their arms and make a 90-degree bow. At this time, parents can carefully observe the child's back to see if both sides of the back are the same height. If the two sides of the back are not at the same height, it can basically be judged as scoliosis, and it is necessary to go to the hospital for further examination and judgment of scoliosis.
Prevention is the first priority of scoliosis, and prevention is more important than treatment. There are also some ways to prevent scoliosis:
Teenagers and children are prone to scoliosis because of bad sitting posture such as watching TV and carrying schoolbags for a long time. Therefore, teenagers and children can choose some limb balance exercises to exercise their spine. Such as jogging, swimming and chest-expanding exercises, can all enhance immunity well. Always remind yourself to hold your chest high and keep your head up to prevent scoliosis.
Conservative treatment and surgical treatment can be adopted to correct scoliosis.
For teenagers, bone development is not yet mature, and the common conservative treatment for moderate and mild scoliosis is brace treatment. However, there are many kinds of orthodontic braces, and you can't just buy a bracket. After wearing orthodontic brackets, they should be adjusted according to X-rays to avoid the discomfort caused by children's long-term wearing.
Patients with scoliosis can also be treated by surgery once conservative treatment with braces fails. The common surgery is corrective fusion surgery, which maintains the shape of the spine by bone grafting and placing metal stents in the body. Avoid the harm caused by the aggravation of scoliosis.
Scoliosis not only affects children's physical health, but also affects their mental health. As parents, we must pay attention to children's spinal problems, actively help children correct spinal problems, pay attention to children's mental health, and encourage more care for children. As classmates and friends, we should also give care, and don't make fun of other people's shortcomings.
Prevention of scoliosis is greater than treatment. We should also actively prevent scoliosis in daily life, pay attention to sitting posture when learning and using electronic equipment, and always remind ourselves to hold our heads high and avoid scoliosis. For severe scoliosis, we should also actively treat it, and we should not be afraid of medical treatment, which will cause more serious consequences.
I believe that under the dual protection of prevention and treatment, children can have a good posture.
I'm Dr. Li. I will take care of your health!