Adolescent scoliosis treatment is very important!

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Adolescent scoliosis is not a rare disease. Most parents come to see their children only when they find that their children's shoulders are obviously high and low, or their backs are uneven or bent to more than 40 degrees. They miss the best opportunity for treatment, which seriously affects their children's physical and mental health. Therefore, early detection and screening of scoliosis, understanding of scoliosis disease common sense is particularly important. Let's take a look at the following.

Adolescent scoliosis treatment is very important!

First, parents have misunderstandings. Scoliosis is a pathological state, which is caused by the distortion of the spine bone. The reason for its high incidence rate is not only the lack of basic knowledge of the disease, but also the misunderstanding of parents. For children's spine changes, many parents will mistakenly think that it is caused by normal phenomenon or poor posture in the process of development. Many children find their own physical abnormalities, but they dare not tell their parents because of shyness, thus delaying the illness.

Second: early detection is very important. In the early stage of scoliosis, some minor changes of children's body include: unequal hip height, asymmetric waist; one shoulder is obviously protruding or "enlarged" than the other side; uneven neckline, one shoulder is higher than the other side; uneven development of girls' breasts; asymmetric chest. Other types of scoliosis may also appear trunk size, milk coffee spots, abnormal back hair. Once the child has the above abnormal conditions, parents should take the child to the hospital in time to consult the doctor.

Third: early diagnosis is not difficult, for the early diagnosis of scoliosis is not difficult. Parents can take their children to the hospital to take a clear X-ray film of the full-length standing position of the spine. Scoliosis is defined when the Cobb angle is greater than 10 degrees. However, try not to take X-rays of the spine while lying down. This will cover up the real condition of the patient to a certain extent, especially for mild patients with good spinal flexibility, the effect may be "normal".

matters needing attention

Choose the best treatment time, the child's scoliosis should be treated as soon as possible, and according to the different etiology and degree of disease, choose the appropriate treatment method. Generally speaking, brace and operation are two effective methods. Brace treatment is the most important and reliable method in non-surgical treatment. At present, most scholars believe that brace has a good effect on adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with immature growth and development, and the angle of scoliosis is between 20 degrees and 40 degrees, but it has a poor effect on congenital and other types of scoliosis. Once the brace treatment is started, it should be worn 23 hours a day, and it should be reduced according to the follow-up situation until the bone is mature. If the angle of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is more than 40 degrees, and the brace treatment can not effectively control the progress of scoliosis, the appearance deformity is obvious, and the trunk is unbalanced, the operation should be carried out in time to avoid delaying the disease; For children with congenital scoliosis, if scoliosis is easy to progress or obvious progress occurs during the observation period, surgery should be performed as soon as possible. 3-5 years old is a better time for surgery.