In fact, preschool age is the most common time for children to start hunchback. Parents usually don't know the real reason, but they just keep telling their children to stand up and sit still, which not only can't really solve the cause of children's hunchback, but also easily destroy the parent-child relationship because of such reminders.
Environmental factors:
Imitation behavior, 3C products, unsuitable desks and chairs
Imitation is the way for children to explore the world and learn new things, and parents are the first objects for children to imitate. I often see that when many parents are correcting their children's postures, they also hunch over and continue to look at their mobile phones, so that children can show such bad postures when using 3C products.
Children spend a lot of time in contact with mobile phones and tablets, and their gaze in a single direction is prolonged, resulting in their bodies being in the same posture for too long. If the height of tables and chairs is not appropriate at the same time, children will unconsciously get used to hunching over.
Personal factors:
Children with insufficient activity, overweight (too thin) and primary scoliosis
It is also possible that they are used to joint support because of muscular dysplasia, resulting in poor body posture. There are also some children who are overweight and their weight is out of proportion to their height, which makes them prone to stand tall and hunched.
In addition, scoliosis, which parents often worry about, is not really common. Most scoliosis will start in adolescence, and a few will occur in preschool. Parents can observe the curve of the back spine when taking a bath for their children. If there is obvious asymmetry, they should go to a medical institution for examination as soon as possible.
What is a good posture/bad posture
The so-called good posture is also called "middle posture", which means that the joints are arranged in a position where the pressure distribution is relatively even. Generally speaking, we will look at five points when standing. The earlobe, shoulder, trochanter (the bone near the side pocket of trousers), knee and ankle need to fall on the same vertical line. The thoracic vertebrae will bulge slightly backward, while the lumbar vertebrae will sag slightly forward.
Children who like to use 3C products for a long time or often play on the floor are prone to hunchback, turtle neck or round shoulders. Humpback refers to a round shoulder whose back bulges backward at an excessive angle, which usually increases cervical lordosis and leads to excessive forward displacement of turtle neck or shoulders.
However, children who are used to standing upright when walking or who are over-corrected to "hold their heads high" may have a posture of "bulging belly" due to excessive lumbar lordosis. These postures, in addition to being unsightly in appearance, are easy to put greater pressure on some joints of our bodies, and if children develop such habits from an early age, they will easily continue to intensify after school age or even in adolescence. Therefore, developing good habits from an early age is the most efficient way to correct posture.
To change children's bad posture habits, we must first find out the reasons behind them. As mentioned above, there are too many possible reasons for children's hunchback. Let's start with us.
have you prepared tables and chairs of appropriate height for your children?
Generally speaking, children from one to two years old can start playing with toys in chairs. As children grow taller, the height of desks and chairs needs to be adjusted in time. In addition to the growing desk, in fact, the height of the desk can also be adjusted by using a hard pad similar to clever spelling. Especially when using 3C products, increase the height of 1-2 cushions, so that children can look straight at the screen and reduce the posture of hunchback and turtle neck. In addition,
it is also very important to maintain enough activity!
According to most studies, preschool children should take at least 15 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity every week. Adequate physical activity can enhance muscle strength and promote bone development, and it is easier to maintain a good posture.
Parents should master three elements when choosing exercise:
Cardiopulmonary fitness, muscle strength and coordination
Generally speaking, walking, running, mountain climbing and cycling belong to aerobic exercise, which can promote children's cardiopulmonary function and need muscle strength training at the same time, such as skipping rope, hopscotch and rock climbing.
Coordinated activities, such as dancing, gymnastics, taekwondo, etc., allow children to try different movements, increase the coordination of hands and feet, flexibility and body control, and promote the development of proprioception.
The best way is to let children fully contact with different kinds of sports, and make sports a part of life, and increase parent-child interaction in it, so that children can develop good sports habits from an early age and avoid long-term static life.
Is the humpback correction belt, which is popular on the Internet, useful?
This is the first question that many parents ask when they find their children's humpback, but unfortunately, the effect of the corrective belt on reducing humpback is limited. Most orthotics improve the backward projection of the back by limiting the shoulder forward. However, this does not take into account that hunchback may be due to possible factors such as the neck leaning forward or the spine bending angle itself being too large, so it may not be suitable for everyone.
and the most fundamental problem is that this practice can't make children learn to control their own bodies. In the long run, it is more likely that the muscles around them will be disabled and forget how to contribute, and the hunchback situation will become more serious when they don't use braces.
If you don't carefully observe the reasons that affect your child's posture in daily life, it is usually not effective to just let your child wear corrective braces, but it may even cause your child to be more rejected because of discomfort.
A small number of children with congenital scoliosis need professional medical personnel to evaluate and even tailor them according to their body shape, so as to effectively deal with scoliosis. Generally, most humpbacked children don't need to wear corrective belts, so they should start by changing their habits in life.
It is a common phenomenon for children to hunch over, because this period is the process of their spine bone development, and they learn to maintain an upright posture. Parents need to pay attention, but they don't need to worry too much. Reminders are ok, but don't become excessive pressure. A good example of setting an example is sometimes worth a thousand words.
a popular intelligent posture-reminding device: the little partner posture instrument (the smart wearing of the "little partner R1 posture instrument", which reminds the father and daughter of hunchback), this habit-forming posture-correcting product can be used for children, because the constant reminding of adults will make children have rebellious psychology, which is why most children will be good for a while after being reminded by their parents, but they will relapse again. The left ear goes in and the right ear goes out. If a smart wearable product can replace the parents' reminder and is interesting, I think the children's acceptance will be better. Besides, parents will not always observe the child's posture range, but with the help of the advantages of the machine, they can find the child's bad posture in time and correct it immediately, so that every bad posture of the child has nowhere to hide, and the machine can do this. Let children develop a good habit of daily life posture, which is healthy for life.
Good posture and good control is a lifelong task for modern people. Establish good habits when children are still young, maintain good posture, and reduce excessive pressure on joints. At the same time, let children fully exercise, enhance muscle strength, train and coordinate, and avoid maintaining static posture for a long time. "The best posture is the next posture. "Parents live with their children!
let's try to be better parents together!