The number of scoliosis in primary and secondary school students has exceeded 5 million! These bad habits change quickly

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 magazines and domestic expert consensus, it is expected that the number of scoliosis in primary and secondary school students in 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 in China after obesity and myopia.

What bad habits can cause a child to develop scoliosis? How can parents find out in time? What are the serious consequences of scoliosis? Ask the question.

What is 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 at 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, it is a rotation, and there is a lateral posterior protrusion, which is called scoliosis in the whole.

Experts say that there are many causes of scoliosis, the most common of which are congenital scoliosis, idiopathic scoliosis, and neuromuscular 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 at Peking University People's Hospital: According to classification, the most common thing in children and adolescents is this so-called idiopathic scoliosis, and the reason is unknown until now. Generally speaking, during adolescent development, when you grow up, when you grow up the fastest, it has an abnormality of the spine, a scoliosis, and the proportion should be about 80%. Poor sitting posture or poor back of the backpack, the height of the stool, including the height of the table and chair, these words are a factor, the most important factor is to say that it is a special disease, idiopathic, that is, at a certain age with the growth and development of children it appears.

Scoliosis in adolescent women is 1.5 times higher than in men

Experts tell us that scoliosis is a three-dimensional structural deformity that is more likely to occur during puberty. And epidemiological surveys have shown that women at the peak of growth and development are more likely to suffer from this disease, with an incidence of up to 1.5 times that of men.

How do I check at home if my child has scoliosis?

For scoliosis, there are two ways to conduct self-examination at home. First, the current internationally common, simple and easy forward flexion test inspection method requires the tested person to have his heels together, his legs straight, and his torso flexed forward by 90 °.

Liu Haiying, head of the National Scoliosis Prevention and Control Working Group for Children and Adolescents and Director of the Spine Surgery Department of Peking University People's Hospital, said: If the forward flexion is 90 degrees, it is easier to see whether the two sides are symmetrical in this case, if it is to say that there is a scoliosis rotation on the spine, it will form a deformity like our professional name called razor back, a hump.

In addition, it is also possible to judge whether it is scoliosis by "four horizontal and one vertical" 5 lines, and any one of these 5 lines is abnormal, which belongs to the torso asymmetry.

Liu Haiying, head of the National Scoliosis Prevention and Control Working Group for Children and Adolescents and Director of spine surgery at Peking University People's Hospital: Look back to see if the two shoulder joints are horizontal; look at the lower corner of the posterior shoulder blade, whether it is horizontal; and then look at whether the waist socket is symmetrical; and we can feel the iliac crest in the back, whether it is on a line, which is four horizontal and four parallel lines. A vertical word, is the back of the spinous process you touch, the whole line is not in a line, if deviated, or the horizontal line is asymmetrical, the horizontal line is high and low, is to doubt whether the spine has scoliosis.

What are the serious consequences of scoliosis?

Remind everyone that through the above two methods of self-testing, if you think that the body has the possibility of scoliosis, you must go to the hospital for further examination. Experts say that any lateral curvature of the spine greater than or equal to 10 ° is scoliosis and should be treated as soon as possible, otherwise surgery will be performed if the situation is bad. So what are the serious consequences of leaving scoliosis unchecked?

Scoliosis not only affects the patient's physical appearance, but also causes muscle tension, resulting in back pain. When scoliosis is severe to a certain extent, it can also cause nerve damage, compress the lungs, and even affect breathing.

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, said: After middle age, the spine and other organs are the same, aging occurs, and some are producing an adult degenerative scoliosis, deformation and hyperplasia of the spine, which will cause narrowing of the spinal canal, and then produce these symptoms of low back pain and lower limbs.

What poor posture can easily lead to scoliosis?

Experts said that in addition to the idiopathic scoliosis that adolescents are susceptible to, the occurrence of other scoliosis diseases is mostly related to poor posture. So which postures and which movements increase the load on the spine?

Liu Haiying, head of the National Working Group for scoliosis prevention and control of children and adolescents and director of the Department of Spine Surgery of Peking University People's Hospital, said: Like lying down, between the spine, between the vertebral body and the vertebral body, if its pressure is 1, the middle pressure is 2 when you stand up, and then the pressure in the middle when you sit is 4 times, if the sitting posture is not good, the ass is pinched, and the load on the lumbosacral part 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.

Reporter: It's probably not right for me to stand with my waist crossed like this, is it?

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, said: If you stand with a forked waist or asymmetry on both sides, in addition to the unbalanced load of the spine, your hip joint, including the knee joint on one side, this weight unbalanced and asymmetrical words will also accelerate the damage of the joint at the same time.

Scoliosis screening has been incorporated into the routine physical examination of students

It is understood that at present, China has included the scoliosis screening program into the routine physical examination of each academic year or the admission of new students. Early detection and early diagnosis are the best prevention and treatment strategies for scoliosis. Experts also remind that to prevent scoliosis, physical exercise is also very important, especially the exercise of low back muscles, such as hanging horizontal bars, playing basketball, swimming, etc. are good choices.

Source: CCTV News