Scoliosis can be divided into congenital and idiopathic according to its nature. Idiopathic scoliosis is the most common. Idiopathic scoliosis means that the structure of the spine is basically normal. Due to the imbalance of neuromuscular strength, the original physiological curvature of the spine has become pathological curvature, which presents a "C" shape or an "S" shape in the development process. Most of them are caused by long-term bad posture and bad habits. Especially the "biased" teenagers, usually discovered by parents or teachers unintentionally. Adolescent scoliosis generally begins to show signs before puberty, progresses rapidly after puberty, and ends after puberty, but many patients still progress slowly after adulthood. Nearly 90% of these patients are adolescent girls, and some experts speculate that their onset is related to women's hormone levels. "Spine curvature measurement" is not uncommon. Among children aged 5~ 15 in China, 3%~5% have different degrees of scoliosis. However, many parents know little about this disease, and it is a pity that scoliosis is not included in the routine items of annual physical examination in our schools. When the child's spine changes, parents often think that it is caused by the child's incorrect posture, which will correct itself with age, thus missing the best treatment period. Because early scoliosis is painless and has no symptoms of low back pain, it is easy to be ignored! When parents find that their children have problems such as thoracic deformity, most of them are in the middle and late stages, and finally they can only be treated by surgery. Scoliosis not only affects children's height, development and appearance, but also makes children lack self-confidence and produce inferiority and autism. Due to the changes in biomechanics, spinal symptoms such as neck, shoulder, back and leg pain are prone to occur in adults, which can seriously affect cardiopulmonary function and even involve the spinal cord, leading to paraplegia. Professor Shen Tong, the chief Asian Games rehabilitation expert, stressed: "Once teenagers suffer from scoliosis, it will get worse with their children's development, so the sooner they are found and treated, the better the effect will be." Experts suggest that parents should regularly take their children to professional institutions to check the development of the spine. If they really can't afford the time, they should spend at least one minute at home for a simple check-up every year. Professor Shen Tong, the chief expert of Longjikang, suggested that parents use the following "six-step screening method" to check their children every year. If there are any abnormalities, they should see a chiropractor in time to make a further diagnosis. The method is as follows:
Let the child take off his coat and stand barefoot naturally. Parents stand behind the child and observe:
Step 1: See if the child's shoulders are equal in height.
Step 2: Touch the shoulder blades on the child's back to see whether the bottom ends of the two shoulder blades are equal in height and whether one shoulder blade protrudes backward. Step 3: Touch the shoulder blades on the child's back to see if the bottom ends of the two shoulder blades are the same height.
Step 4: Touch and compare whether the child's bilateral backs are raised and symmetrical.
Step 5: Touch and compare whether the child's bilateral waist is raised and symmetrical.
Step 6: Draw the spine in the middle with your middle finger and forefinger to see if you can draw a normal straight line.
As long as any one of these six steps is found to be abnormal, you should take your child to the hospital as soon as possible for spinal examination and X-ray for further diagnosis. Once diagnosed, it should be treated systematically in time.
The early stage of functional scoliosis can be corrected by non-surgical methods, including correcting children's bad posture, spinal manipulation reduction, physical therapy, functional exercise and so on. For advanced patients, only surgery can be used.
"Long's chiropractic therapy" determines the angle and degree of scoliosis of patients through three-step localization diagnosis, namely nerve localization, palpation and X-ray diagnosis. For children in the early and middle stages, Long's four-step bonesetting massage was used to correct spinal dislocation, and then the muscles with weakened muscle strength were stimulated by medium and low frequency physiotherapy to restore spinal balance. Besides receiving treatment in hospital, personal exercise and self-correction are also important. For example, swimming, especially freestyle and backstroke, is an extremely effective way to exercise back muscles. Stick to stretching the horizontal bar every day, and you can also exercise your back muscles (which side of your shoulders can be pulled); Swallow-like movements are also very helpful for spinal stretching (the whole person lies on the bed, raises his arms and lower limbs while straightening, and his abdomen is close to the bed surface, more than 20 times a day). For adolescent scoliosis that will affect children's life, only early detection and early treatment are the best methods! Parents should always pay attention to their children's sitting and sleeping positions. When sitting, don't bend over, let alone twist your body. It is best to sleep on your back and 90 side alternately. White-collar workers are prone to spinal diseases.
Spinal disease is a common disease, which mostly occurs in the elderly, but the onset age is getting younger. Spinal spondylosis can lead to neck, waist, back pain, headache, dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, chest pain, numbness of limbs and other symptoms. Because it is difficult to find organic lesions during examination, it is easy to be misdiagnosed. According to the survey, most young people with spinal diseases are office white-collar workers. Why? The reasons are as follows: 1, bending over a desk for a long time, inappropriate height of tables and chairs, poor sitting posture and computer placement deviation will all lead to physiological bending and buckling of cervical and lumbar vertebrae, which will easily lead to dislocation of spinal joints, muscle fatigue and ligament strain, and lead to a series of symptoms. 2. Due to the pressure of work and the tense pace of life, it is often easy to doze off when commuting by bus or subway. The relaxation of neck and waist muscles weakens the protection of the spine. Once the brakes shake, it is easy to cause dislocation of the cervical and lumbar joints. 3. Many white-collar women lack exercise, which leads to the decrease of muscle and ligament elasticity and the instability of the spine. Once the posture is not good or the exercise is not ready before exercise, the dislocation of the spinal joint will be induced. 4, often wear high heels, the pelvis will lean forward, leading to hip tilt, excessive forward bending of the lumbar spine, accelerating the compression of the lumbar joint and shortening the length of the muscles behind it, making the abdominal muscles relax and the waist pressure increase, which is easy to make the spinal joint unstable, leading to backache. I like to hang my handbag on my forearm or wrist, or use a large handbag, which is heavier. Because of long-term unilateral exertion, my back muscle strength is unbalanced, resulting in corresponding muscle strain. In severe cases, the spinal joint is dislocated, and the neck, shoulders, back and upper limbs will feel sore and numb. Tips for healthy spine: 1. Go to the spine specialist regularly to correct the dislocation of facet joints and repair the damaged soft tissue. 2. When walking or standing, you will hold your chest and abdomen, keep your spine straight, choose some relatively high and hard chairs when sitting, and basically do not sit on sofas and short benches. 3. When sleeping, consciously lie on your back or 90 side, and never sleep on your stomach or bend over. Choose a pillow with the right height when sleeping. The pillow is divided into supine position and lateral position, with the center of the supine position and both ends of the lateral position pillow. The height of the supine pillow is one punch, and the height of the lateral position at both ends of the pillow is one punch plus two horizontal fingers. The correct sleeping position is that the head and neck are on the pillow. 4. If you take a long-distance bus or doze off by car, you will definitely use an inflatable neck brace to relieve the neck jitter caused by bumpy braking during sleep and avoid cervical spine injury. 5, usually hang the horizontal bar to stretch the spine, and swimming can exercise the strength of the neck, shoulders, waist and back muscles. 6. Try not to wear it unless necessary. The heel should be within 75px as far as possible, and not more than 2 hours a day. 7. Try to use a backpack, with one shoulder controlled below 1.5kg, and both sides take turns to exert force. The "bone spurs" and "osteoporosis" of the elderly are not terrible.
Because of walking upright, people's intervertebral discs began to degenerate at the age of 20. The reduction of water in the intervertebral disc leads to the relaxation of the surrounding ligaments. In addition, middle-aged and elderly people's muscle elasticity decreased, ligaments were strained, and their ability to protect spinal stability began to weaken. Once the posture is incorrect and minor trauma occurs, it will easily lead to muscle strain, dislocation of spinal joints, and serious protrusion of cervical and lumbar intervertebral discs. The medical profession and the public will have a misunderstanding about spinal diseases of middle-aged and elderly people, which are all caused by hyperosteogeny (spur), degeneration, osteoporosis and disc herniation. Many people with neck pain and low back pain will go to the hospital for X-ray examination, and the results will come out. Many times there will be hyperosteogeny, which is what we call "bone spur". The doctor will say that your pain symptoms are mainly caused by hyperosteogeny, which is actually incorrect and unscientific. The so-called bone spur (hyperosteogeny) refers to the protruding part of the front edge of the vertebral body. These protrusions are not as sharp as thorns as everyone thinks, but only slightly prominent. Moreover, there are no large blood vessels and nerves in front of the vertebral body, and the spinal nerves mainly come out from the back of the vertebral body. The appearance of hyperosteogeny can mainly show that when you are old, your spine begins to degenerate, which is a very normal physiological degeneration phenomenon. It is found that more than 80% of the symptoms are caused by facet dislocation, not hyperosteogeny, because hyperosteogeny is not the main cause. The real reason is the dislocation of spinal joint (more than 80%). As long as the dislocated joint is corrected, it can be cured without taking medicine! Tip: It is very important to make a definite diagnosis. Bone hyperplasia is a normal physiological degeneration phenomenon. When hyperplasia severely compresses nerves or blood vessels, it will cause pain symptoms and need symptomatic treatment. Most patients' pain is caused by muscle ligament injury or facet dislocation, and their hyperosteogeny is not the main cause of their pain. Similarly, osteoporosis, like hyperosteogeny, is not the chief culprit of shoulder, neck, waist, leg and knee pain in the elderly. In fact, only severe osteoporosis does cause pain, which has been confirmed by research, but general osteoporosis does not have too many symptoms. Women over 40 years old and over 50 years old often suffer from osteoporosis due to endocrine reasons. The real causes of most pains are dislocation of spinal joints and muscle strain. Suggestion: Osteoporosis is not a disease. When osteoporosis is serious and causes pain in neck, shoulders, waist and legs, it is called osteoporosis and needs symptomatic treatment. To avoid osteoporosis, pay attention to proper daily exercise and reasonable diet, and do not need to supplement calcium blindly.