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High and low shoulders, long and short legs, and walking lame, these problems that seriously affect our posture, health and temperament may all come from a disease that is becoming more and more prevalent: scoliosis.
Scoliosis, a disease that sounds strange and familiar. Many people only realize that they need to understand and treat the deformity that is visible to the naked eye, but it is often too late, which has caused great difficulties in its treatment and correction, especially in adolescents, if the spine is in scoliosis for a long time, it may have a greater impact on growth and development. In the face of scoliosis, the best way is to prevent it from happening, detect it early, and treat it early.
How can I tell if I have scoliosis?
So how can you tell if you or a family member has scoliosis? Follow the experts of Liling Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and then look down:
Key points of family self-test: "one look", "two touches".
Inspection requirements: The examinee takes off his shirt or wears tight underwear, stands barefoot, his hands hang down naturally, and the examiner stands behind him to observe.
Take a look
1. Whether the shoulders are of equal height;
2. Whether the shoulder blades on both sides are symmetrical and whether there is a bulge;
3. Whether the lower back muscles are depressed;
4. Whether the buttocks are sideways.
Two touches
1. Whether there is a razor back when bending over;
2. Whether there is left and right curvature of the spine (if you find more than 2 problems or you can't judge, please go to the hospital in time to further improve the imaging examination).
How can I tell if it's time for therapeutic intervention?
If scoliosis is detected, how can I tell if it is time for treatment?
We can judge the degree of scoliosis by measuring the Cobb angle and thus choose different interventions.
Scoliosis with a Cobb angle of 10 degrees or less, posture training and corrective gymnastics can be performed. Scoliosis with a Cobb angle of 10-20 degrees can be treated with physiotherapy in addition to the above to strengthen the lateral muscles. The Cobb angle of 20-45 degrees is moderate, and the Cobb angle of more than 45 degrees is severe. Severe patients require treatment, and early detection can be used to achieve mild intervention.
How can I prevent scoliosis?
Scoliosis is very important from a preventive point of view. Because of its insidiousness, it is difficult to detect at an early stage. Therefore, prevention is better than cure. Attention should be paid to the following aspects:
1. Sitting for a long time leads to excessive burden on the spine. So within 1 hour, be sure to get up and stand properly.
2. Try not to work and write homework diagonally, and ask for correct posture. Don't sit for long periods of time, get up and move appropriately; Try not to stick your shoulders, hook your head forward, or hunch over when you walk, as this posture can also worsen scoliosis.
3. Try to use a backpack, not one shoulder. Because even if the shoulders are heavy, it is relatively balanced, and if it is one shoulder, it will aggravate scoliosis.
4. Try not to have a half-lying and half-sitting posture when you go home, which also has a certain impact on scoliosis.
How does TCM treat scoliosis?
1. Thoracolumbar traction
Thoracolumbar traction is the use of mechanical principles, through the traction device to exert a certain traction force on the body, its role is to increase the intervertebral space, straighten the spine, correct the curvature of the spine, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing scoliosis.
2. Acupuncture physiotherapy
Acupuncture physiotherapy is to stimulate specific acupuncture points of the human body through acupuncture, moxibustion or combined with electrical stimulation, magnetic and thermal therapy, etc., so as to achieve the effect of dredging meridians, harmonizing qi and blood, strengthening the right and dispelling evil, helping to balance the muscles on both sides of the spine and improve scoliosis.
3. Massage and bone correction
Tuina orthopedics is a manual operation to passively stretch and reduce the spine, so as to adjust the position relationship between the facet joints and nerve roots of the spine and the surrounding tissue structures, so that the clinical symptoms of scoliosis can be improved, the spine can maintain a dynamic balance, and scoliosis can be corrected.
Hunan Medical Chat Special Author: Liling Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture and Massage Department, Zhang Beibei
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(Editor YH)