In the old days, when children played ball in the yard, and did not sit for hours at the computers, scoliosis was a rather rare disease. However, in our age of information technology, a child with a healthy back is more an exception than a rule.
The causes of scoliosis
Scoliosis is a disease that can be both congenital and acquired. If the disease is congenital, it can have such forms as additional vertebrae, deformation of the vertebrae of the wedge-shaped or an underdeveloped spine, but all this is less common than the types of acquired scoliosis.
Most often, the curvature of the spine in children begins with an incorrect posture. One shoulder falls below the other, the back bends, and the vertebrae go to one side. If the treatment is not started on time, the disease will progress and may lead to very unpleasant consequences of scoliosis, up to the deformation of the internal organs.
The most common causes of scoliosis are the following:
- the wrong position of the body, associated with the physiological characteristics of the human structure, such as different lengths of legs, flat feet and others;
- wrong position of the body: work at the table with a bowed head, wrong posture in the chair, habitual wrong posture and so on;
- asymmetrical muscle development;
- poor physical development;
- spine trauma;
- subluxations of the cervical vertebrae, which the child can receive during childbirth;
- malnutrition;
- a number of diseases, such as rickets, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, radiculitis, pleurisy and some others.
Versions about the causes of scoliosis in children every day becomes more and more, as well as the methods of treatment, some of which are ineffective. For the diagnosis you need to contact professionals - osteopaths and manual therapists, who will help and diagnose the disease, and prescribe treatment.
Prevention of scoliosis in children is a mobile way of life, visiting sports sections and forming a smooth posture.
Treatment of scoliosis in children
To the question of how to treat scoliosis in children, you should approach very seriously, and first of all, turn to a good doctor. The specialist will consider a specific case and suggest a method of treatment:
- massage;
- manual therapy;
- Exercise therapy;
- yoga;
- fitness;
- electromyostimulation;
- insole, corsets;
- surgery;
- Combined therapies (massage + exercise therapy + manual therapy).
Massage with scoliosis in children and adults is almost the first prescribed measure: an experienced masseur can "expose" vertebrae exactly as a result of a full course of treatment.
LFK in scoliosis in children, or exercise therapy, is a very effective method, but if the treatment is carried out on the basis of a state clinic, groups of children are usually numerous, and there is no individual approach.
Often doctors prescribe swimming in scoliosis: a feeling of weightlessness appears in the water, which helps in the formation of a more harmonious posture.
Therapeutic sports for scoliosis of the first degree are not limited to yoga and easy fitness. Also shown are cycling, speed skating, gymnastics, rowing, cross-country skiing, jogging and trampoline jumping and others. In general, the question of what kind of sport can be practiced in scoliosis, the answer is simple - bilateral or mixed (ie, one that develops muscles evenly on both sides or alternately). Kinds of sport like badminton, basketball or fencing, in which the muscles develop on one side of the body, children with a curvature of the spine are contraindicated.