Children’s “desk breaks” are bad for spinal health

Lunch break after meals, is the children’s hard work to complete the morning after a 4-hour course of the only remaining rest time, many students in the school lunch break, are lying on the desk to sleep a while, and even some schools put desks or benches together, so that the children lie down on the top of the sleep, which is another blow to the health of the spine. In addition to the risk of falling on desks and chairs, the small size of desks and benches means that children have to sleep curled up, and the unevenness of desks is bad for children’s spinal development. When people are asleep, to protect the spine of the muscles, ligaments in a state of relaxation, poor sleeping posture can easily lead to spinal distortion, vertebral joints are misaligned, causing the corresponding symptoms, such as cervical vertebrae subluxation tend to dizziness, headache, poor concentration, neck and shoulder pain, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae subluxation will be the appearance of low back pain, lower extremity numbness and pain or even scoliosis. If possible, or choose to provide a bed for the child to rest “small table”, which is more conducive to the child for the afternoon heavy learning to prepare. In addition to sleeping posture, writing posture is not correct (such as crooked head twisted body writing homework), or reading in the car, coupled with the attraction of the current electronic products on the child, can often see a lot of students long time to play games with their heads down, and even school bags with unequal length. Stilts legs, tables and chairs do not match these small details will also jeopardize the child’s spinal health. Parents should pay attention to correct these bad postures of children. Although sitting and standing posture is not the decisive factor in the occurrence of scoliosis, but maintain good posture. It will help your child to have an elegant posture and also look more upright and refreshed. So parents should still remind their children to sit and stand properly in life, so that they can maintain a good posture!