Why should I care about my adolescent’s spine health?

First, from a social perspective, adolescents are the main audience to “enjoy” the fruits of economic development, while becoming the main “force” to “create” spinal diseases. With the development of the economy, the pace of life and work, the rapid changes in high technology, and so on, the youth as our future and hope bearers, overload of classroom learning, after-school homework, special interest classes, busy online games, and so on, there are the shortcomings of China’s existing education system, but also parents “hope that their children will become dragons “This is driven by the vision of parents who want their sons to become dragons and their daughters to become phoenixes. Directly resulting in too long head down time, rest activities are too short, the third grade to high school sleep 6 hours a day, far less than the reasonable time of 9 hours; resulting in spinal damage is bent back, hunchback, scoliosis. Second, in terms of each family, the child is the only hope to change and continue the development of the family, and the power of value drives the rationalization of spinal problems. Academic overload, poor study posture, and overweight school bags are the three main reasons why adolescents add to the burden of the cervical spine. The belief of “people go higher”, the business philosophy of “input is output”, and the sense of competition of “winning at the starting line”, children are not yet adults, but they have adult will. Hunched over more, the solidification of thinking and consciousness has gone into decline; bones are still soft, can be supplemented with calcium, early experience the treatment of osteoporosis, but the environment that affects the ossification of their own bones; muscles are still weak, can be massaged, learn to enjoy early, weakening the proprioceptive perception of muscles. It leads to the deformation of the child’s spine and also distorts the development of the child’s mind! Third, and then in terms of health care, spinal problems in adolescents are similar to the performance of adults, and may be the cause of multiple diseases in adults. The 460 cases of adult cervical spine disease from 2005 to 2007 were 93% poor posture, cervical spine imaging performance was consistent with poor posture, 30% imaging showed cervical spine injury in adolescence, and reduced crawling in infancy and early childhood also affected imaging performance in adulthood. From 1998 to January 2013, more than 1,000 cases of cervical spine dysfunction between the ages of 3 and 16 years old have been reported in outpatient clinics, suggesting that “cervical spine injury and dysplasia” is the pathological basis, and cervical spine curvature straightening, scoliosis, and joint instability are the main imaging manifestations, causing symptoms and manifestations involving more than 100 systemic conditions. It may be closely related to a variety of diseases in adulthood. Treatment principles: brief passive correction, long-term active maintenance, to ensure normal development. Excessive mechanical stimulation and medications may interfere with the normal development of the adolescent spine, and the resulting damage may be lifelong. Thus, it seems that the spine of adolescents is a social problem that requires the cooperation of parents, schools, medical, cultural, sports and other multi-professional and multi-sectoral cooperation in order to solve this major issue for the benefit of the people and the country and for our future!