As an adult, hunchback, chicken chest, tilted pelvis, unequal shoulders, unequal backs, unequal legs, twisted body, short stature …… All of these horrific descriptors of appearance can actually come from the same disease that lurks in adolescents – scoliosis. “Never underestimate the scoliosis, it leads to the evil not only ‘unsightly’, but also may cause low back pain, and let the children premature disc degeneration or even herniation, osteophytes. If the bending causes the chest and abdominal cavity area is reduced, serious cases will also hinder the normal physiological functions of respiration, digestion, blood circulation and so on.” The summer vacation clothing thin, it is parents and children themselves found the best period of scoliosis, if found in a timely manner, the vast majority of children as long as the exercise exercise rehabilitation can be, do not have to suffer through the “surgical pass”. Fell curved spine, not timely correction even a lifetime has been a teenager Tao tao in kindergarten, a play slide accidentally fell from the edge of the head with five stitches, was diagnosed by the doctor as a “mild concussion”, but after leaving the hospital, he seems to be all right. One day, Tao tao naked at home when reading, mother suddenly found her son’s spine from the back seems to be obviously curved, neck, thoracic vertebrae are skewed to one side, not in a straight line. So they took Tao tao to the hospital. “X-ray results showed that his neck physiological curvature is not normal, the posterior edge of the vertebrae have osteophytes, the cervico-thoracic segment of the spine is mild ‘C’ shaped scoliosis.” Because Tao Tao was a first-time patient, the specialist was very detailed in understanding the medical history and physical examination. “When I asked if he had experienced head and neck trauma as a child, or if he had fallen from a height, his mother told me that he had fallen from a height.” Taking everything into account, it can be hypothesized that Tao Tao’s current scoliosis deformity was caused by a traumatic spinal injury and an abnormal alignment of the vertebrae that was not corrected in time. Although after three months of treatment for the spine, Tao tao symptoms have improved significantly, but he has been impossible to return to the previous best state. “If it could have been diagnosed and treated in time, the scoliosis would not have been as severe as it is now.” Childhood spinal alignment prone to error Many people think that spinal disease is “occupational disease” or “urban disease”, but there is an “exception” exists: scoliosis The “main card” is children and adolescents. “Like Tao Tao’s case belongs to traumatic scoliosis. In fact, scoliosis is divided into many kinds, of which idiopathic scoliosis is the most common, accounting for about 85% of the total number of patients with scoliosis, the exact cause is not clear. Its onset has ‘female over male’ phenomenon, like to concentrate in the adolescent period.” He said. “It has been calculated that the vertebrae that make up the spine can be arranged in nearly 200 million different combinations. The combinations are in a normal state for a person’s spine to remain healthy. But life is very much a ‘catch-22’ and the slightest mishap can cause spinal injuries that affect the normal alignment of the spine and lead to the appearance of scoliosis.” Since birth, newborn babies have to go through layers of spinal danger test: born, baby head and neck often by doctors and nurses, friends and relatives left and right; less than a year old that will be crawling and rolling, a careless may fall to the ground; toddler, falling is a common occurrence; after school, every day to carry a heavy bag, head down to write never finished homework… … Because the spine in childhood is not yet mature, the structure is not stable, the protection mechanism is not perfect, many factors are prone to cause children’s spinal alignment abnormality, serious to a certain extent before there will be obvious performance, which is the main reason why children are prone to have spinal disorders but not easy to be perceived. “Children’s spinal compensatory ability is very strong, not easy to appear bad feeling; others are due to sitting, standing posture is ugly, and parents simply accused of ‘sitting without sitting, standing without standing’, the intention of correcting through scolding and unsuccessful. So it’s really not easy to find the real culprit, the spinal abnormality, quickly.” Due to the soft joints of adolescents, some symptoms can easily arise and disappear, or be less obvious, but the abnormal alignment of the spine is retained and becomes a hidden danger that can become serious in the future. According to statistics, 80% of the elderly scoliosis from children and adolescents, and in China, various degrees of spinal anomalies or scoliosis incidence of children as high as 20%.