How parents can detect scoliosis in children

Each patient with scoliosis does not necessarily behave the same way. Common manifestations include: one shoulder is higher than the other. One side of the scapula is more prominent than the other; the waist transverse line is not – like high; some attentive parents can find that one side of the child’s chest back or waist back is high up, and the skirt of the girl is not at the same level when wearing a skirt, and one side is significantly higher than the other. If some of the above-mentioned performance, you can let your child stand upright, and then both hands parallel to the elbow, slowly bend downward, you carefully observe its back from the front and back of the child, if the back of the chest or waist back on both sides of the asymmetry, that is, one side is higher than the other side.       Scoliosis should be examined by an experienced doctor immediately. Most scoliosis early no symptoms, once found are more or less deformed, affecting the aesthetics, scoliosis should be in adolescents in regular annual checkups. The United States, Japan and China have made the examination of the spine a part of the student health examination. However, the examination method generally uses the visual inspection method. Some use the suspension test. Some use the bend forward test to observe whether the back is different in height on both sides, and the visual inspection is easy to miss the diagnosis of mild cases. The use of spinal X-ray is more correct, but the cost is large, and there is radiation, should not be used as a census or regular examination program. China has carried out the Moire cloudflare camera, the use of ordinary light source, ordinary film photography method for screening, both convenient and correct. Because of the need for the Moire cloud camera, this method is not yet very popular.      In fact, the easiest way is to visit the orthopedic department of a hospital and have it examined by an orthopedic specialist.