The Dangers of Scoliosis in Children

The harms of scoliosis in children mainly include affecting their growth and development, impairing cardiopulmonary function and affecting mental health. 1. Impact on growth and development: scoliosis can affect the height development of children, causing short stature. Meanwhile, scoliosis can cause children’s shoulders to be different heights, asymmetrical development of chest and breasts, and hunchback. 2. Impact on cardiopulmonary function: scoliosis will bring back and leg pain and bone spurs and other symptoms, and bone spurs will cause compression of the spinal cord and nerves, which will lead to paraplegia and other consequences, and restrictive lung disease, so that the thorax due to the poor development of the chest and lungs to the heart and lungs, causing damage to the cardiopulmonary function. 3. Mental health impact: the body image brought about by scoliosis will lead to shyness, resulting in psychological shadow and low self-esteem, affecting the mental health of children. It is recommended that children with scoliosis seek medical attention in a timely manner.