The spine is the central bone of the human body, which is the pillar of the body, with load-bearing, shock absorption, protection, and movement functions. The child’s spine is fragile and soft, and bad habits in life will make the child’s spine deformed, if you want to protect the child’s spine, parents need to pay attention to protect the spine in daily life. In this blog post, we will discuss spinal problems in teenagers, preventing them early and keeping them healthy.
Spinal Problems in Adolescents
Because parents do not notice their children’s spinal growth problems, it may be the root cause of abnormal spinal development. Under normal circumstances, parents will focus on the child’s psychological growth, physical nutrition, and learning problems, but very few parents will pay attention to the child’s bone development problems, perhaps they will buy some calcium tablets to supplement bone growth nutrition, but did not pay attention to the spine growth changes of teenagers. After all, spinal development problems are not suddenly found and need to be carefully observed, but this is generally difficult to pay attention to. There are usually children’s sitting problems, a long time of incorrect sitting, will cause scoliosis, and a few years later, this side curvature will become more obvious. Therefore, spinal development is a detail that is easily overlooked.
How to Protect Spinal
Focus on Exercise
Aerobic exercise: mainly for running, swimming, walking, and other sports, can increase the flexibility of the spine, to prevent the spine from maintaining a position for a long time, resulting in an excessive increase in spinal stress. Excessive increase in spinal stress can lead to cervical disc herniation, lumbar disc herniation, and other diseases, so long-term aerobic exercise can effectively avoid such diseases; Anaerobic exercise: anaerobic exercise is to exercise muscle strength, mainly including plank support, etc., these exercises can better increase the core muscle strength. If the core muscles are stronger, the spine will be more stable. Therefore, long-term adherence to moderate aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercise can ensure the health of the spine.
Watch Your Diet
Teenagers can supplement their bones with calcium, vitamin D, collagen, and vitamin E, such as walnuts, hazelnuts, olive oil, mayonnaise, eggs, fish, and grains. In particular, a daily intake of 1,200 to 1,500 milligrams of calcium is essential. In addition to taking calcium supplements, foods containing calcium must also be consumed to make bones stronger, which may be lacking in scoliosis treatment.
Focus on Postural Correction
When you usually walk and sit, you can pay more attention to your posture and correct it in time. For example, maintaining the correct learning posture can not only prevent myopia, prevent hunchback, but also protect the child’s spine. And don’t sit for long periods of time. Sitting for long periods of time can also increase the burden on the spine. The best idea is to buy an Ergonomic Chair, which not only fits into the sitting position but also reduces the burden on the spine.
Control Your Weight
Remember that the spine carries the weight of the entire body. A good way to reduce the force on the human spine is to maintain the standard weight of teenagers, because the heavier the weight, the greater the pressure on the spine, the weight control within the normal range, is conducive to the protection of the spine, usually do not eat too much greasy food and high-sugar drinks, eat more vitamin-rich vegetables and lean meat, in order to maintain weight, do not damage the spine.
Conclusion
Spinal problems are physical problems, and many adults suffer from spinal problems because they were not taken seriously in their teens. Spinal problems can also involve pain in other areas, such as peri arthritis of the shoulder. So, to focus on spinal problems is to focus on adolescent growth.