Back pain in children
Walking stooping or sitting in an incorrect position on the school desk or doing homework can cause a back injury in children. If you want to teach your children how to sit properly and walk upright, take note of the tips to prevent and treat backaches of Dr. Domingo Carretero , specialist in Trauma
Walking stooping or sitting in an incorrect position on the school desk or doing homework can cause a back injury in children. If you want to teach your children how to sit properly and walk upright, take note of the tips to prevent and treat backaches of Dr.Domingo Carretero, specialist in Traumatology of the Kovacs Foundation.
Back pain in children
How can children prevent back pain in school?
The child spends 8 hours sitting in school and hence the importance of doing it in a correct way. The correct form is the law of the right angles, the leg forming a right angle with the thigh, the trunk forming a right angle with the thigh, well placed close to the back of the chair and the arms more or less attached to the body . The height of the desk should be correct, so that it does not force the child to have his shoulders raised up and not hang him either.
This is more complicated to accomplish than it seems because the desks grow all at once and each child grows at a pace. By this we mean that there should be simple screw systems that could raise or lower the height of the table. Although the child spends 8 hours in class, at home, when he is studying he must also have good posture, there parents can influence more.
How should children transport school materials?
It is always said that the head has to work more than the back and this means carrying only what is essential. The way to carry it, the most advisable would be to carry a backpack with wheels with an extendable handle so that it adapts to the height of the child. If that does not admit the fashion and it has to be hung, that is on both shoulders, that the straps are wide, that it has a belt so that it adapts perfectly to the body on the sacral lumbar area, not only on one side in plan bandolier, that would not be correct. Always keep in mind that the child should not carry more than 10 percent of their weight, that is, if the child weighs 40 kg, the maximum weight that should be carried is 4 kg. It is difficult to comply, but the closer we get to the ideal, the better we will be doing it.Can sport prevent back pain?
In the case of exercise and sports, in principle, any exercise is better than none. There are some more complete than others, but it is always decisive to do it continuously, attending to the sport that the child likes the most.
Regarding the exercise, we must insist on the importance of the work of the coaches and the teachers, to teach the children that you always have to warm up the muscles before exercising and then stretch them. And more than the competitive desire to win, that someone has to have, the important thing is to see that the child is improving in the development of that sport.
What guidelines of postural hygiene do we have to teach children so that they do not hurt their backs or develop injuries?
Having said that, the child should always sit with his back supported on the back of the chair, and at right angles, so that the trunk makes a right angle with the thighs, the thighs with the legs, which the arms are more or less glued to the body and the height of the table is such that it allows the shoulders to be at a normal height, that they are not too high or hanging. At home, parents can control the child's posture when doing homework, and reproduce the appropriate postures.
Another issue is that you can force a child to complain at night that your back hurts, it's the subject of the mattress. Mattresses must be firm. They can provide other added benefits, but fundamentally it is the hardness of the mattress that influences. The degree of hardness should be intermediate so that the child feels comfortable in that mattress.
What are the injuries that children often develop on their backs?
The most common consultation of parents during childhood of their children is scoliosis, that is, the formation of abnormal curvatures in the back. If we see the child from behind with a bare back, the column should be like a vertical line. When this line curves to the right or to the left, this is a case of scoliosis.
What should we never do when our back hurts?
Something important when there is a contracture or any small problem of the back, is knowing that rest is useless, it only serves to make everything worse. Logically, if you have pain you will not be able to play football or basketball, but it does not help if you are in bed. It is better to move what you can. This is very important, apart from consulting the pediatrician or the corresponding doctor.
What are the most common treatments for children, when their back hurts constantly?
Exercise, drugs, rehabilitation in some cases and specific treatments by the Kovacs Foundation such as neumoreflexotherapy, popularly known as staple treatment, which involves the implantation of small staples in the back that are totally painless. used.
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