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What’s a parent can do to protect their children’s spines.

Kids spine spinal care

Unfortunately, there are many overweight children with scoliosis and careless posture these days.

A sedentary, sedentary lifestyle is now typical in childhood.

As a result, malnutrition has become extremely common among children and young people.

Distance learning only made matters worse.

Today’s hot topic is the hectic lifestyle, sedentary work, and the fact that we take less than 2,000 steps a day.

The kids may be in an even worse position.

In the morning, with a big bag of school, they crouch all day in the improperly set up benches and desks, and then in the afternoon, go home to study and write the lesson the next day.

Kids who don’t play sports next to school don’t meet their daily exercise needs.

It is essential that we move our spine and, with it, our trunk muscles regularly, and pay attention to our posture as early as possible.

It already occurs in preschool 62% (orthopedic screenings by Sándor Pellet in Gödöllő), and this does not decrease during school years.

Among high school students, the proportion of students with either a postural defect (about 65%) or juvenile spinal disease to be treated (Scheuermann’s disease and true scoliosis, i.e. scoliosis, together about 15%) (orthopedic screenings by Gábor Fejérdy in Kismaros and In Budapest, projections by orthopedist Áron Lazáry and his colleagues in Pásztó, Szentgotthárd, and Budapest).

Posture failure is not a disease yet, but if it stays that way, it can become a harbinger of spinal wear in young adults. All of this is quite frightening, and parents do well to be aware of this danger.

The spine on newborn babies is still straight, with natural curvatures developing parallel with the stages of movement development (head lifting, rolling, crawling-climbing, sitting, standing).

The spine’s physiological curvatures are responsible for making the spine more flexible and able to bear loads of the body evenly.

Appropriately strong trunk muscles are essential for good posture.

Nowadays, we experience childhood spine problems more and more often.

A mild posture disorder is called negligence.

In this case, if we talk to the child, he will be able to correct his posture until he gets tired.

If this bad habit becomes entrenched, it can even lead to scoliosis.

Posture failure is not a disease yet, but if it stays that way, it can become a harbinger of spinal wear in young adults.

All of this is quite frightening, and parents do well to be aware of this danger.

Three things a parent can do to protect their children’s spines:

1. Everyday physical education

2. Design the home study space (chair and table) according to the child’s body size.

3. Swimming and posture training

What is a good chair for the spine?

The height of the chair and the length of the seating surface allow you to slide your buttocks back on the seating surface to the back of the chair while keeping your feet resting on the floor.

The back of the chair is in a position and position so that we can support the top of our pelvis and our waist.

The back of the chair is not too long and thus does not impede the placement of the shoulder blades and upper back.

The design of the back of the chair has to support the top of the pelvis and the waist in both writing and watching positions.

The front edge of the seat surface of the chair is not sharp and thus does not press on the thigh, i.e., it does not impede blood circulation.

How to sit in the chair correctly?

Slide the butt back, as far as it will go.

We support him with our pelvic bones and our waist to the back of the chair.

If the chair is not suitable for this, put a small pillow behind your waist.

If nothing else is at hand, we can also support the top of our pelvis and our waist with the back of our hands. (That’s why it’s good for proper posture when Aunt Teacher tells the kids we’re resting now: put your hands back.)

Lean foot on the floor.
If the child is too small for the height of the chair, put your foot on a box.

It burdens the waist if the foot does not lean.

The height of the table should be adjusted to the body size. Hence, a preschool child needs a different table than an “adult-sized” individual.

A truly spine-sparing table is one whose top can be tilted.

Such a table of variable size and tilting surface also used in school, e.g., In Germany. (see www.agr.de).

Wedge pillow

We can put a wedge cushion on the seat of the chair (available in medical aid stores) that elevates the sciatic bone, bringing the pelvis and lumbar spine in a better position when studying or drawing while sitting at a table. Another nifty chair repair tool is also available in medical aid stores. It supports the lumbar spine when sitting.

Bed mattress

The bed should be hard rather than soft and not dimmed.

What is a good bike for the spine?

From the spine’s point of view, it is an excellent bike to ride a straight waist.

What makes a good school bag for the spine?

The weight of the packaged schoolbag should not exceed 10% of the child’s weight. To do this, parents and educators still have a lot of work to do together. Children carry much heavier bags today, and this collective will can help the most (there is little legislation for this).

Swimming and posture training

Suppose parents can teach and take their children to swim (this can also be a good weekend program). It would be good if families could get help with expensive pool entrants.

At school, it now expected that all children undergo physical education as part of physical education.

It is advisable to do the same posture improvement gymnastics in kindergarten. Kindergarten teachers can learn this correctly. They can do it well with larger kindergarteners, and the results of this can be during the school years.

Parents can motivate physical educators with interest. kindergarten teachers to perform maintenance improvements regularly. (Taking home improvement exercises would be too much of a requirement for parents, instead of achieving regular use in school/kindergarten physical education.)

Research resources:

Hanyagtartás

http://www.matyasfoldklinika.hu/szakrendeles/gyogytorna/gyermekeknel-gerincproblemak-hanyag-tartas-gyogyitasa.html

What are the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle?

Poverty results in our muscles responsible for posture being underused and misused, causing some of our muscles to shrink,
others to weaken, our postures to become faulty and muscle balance to be upset.

The small formulas of the subjected to an almost constant load due to gravity not sized for this. (If muscle balance is working correctly, there is a load on formulas that are scaled to and withstand it.)

Muscle imbalance and overloaded spinal formulas result in later cartilage wear in young adulthood.

A change in the intervertebral cartilage caused by overload causes abnormal motility in the small joints of the spine. These two processes impair each other.

Finally, the pre-convexity of the intervertebral cartilage and calcification of the small joint resulting in narrowing the spinal canal.

As in all areas, prevention is paramount.

Since surveys show that 65% of preschoolers hold their bodies incorrectly, it is worth giving them a player spine at this age.

Mandatory daily physical education can help a lot in prevention.

Developed neglect can be treated and improved with regular physiotherapy.

If necessary, we help and speed up the elasticity of the back to a healthy level with a therapeutic massage.