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Scoliosis: treatment
Last reviewed: 20.11.2021
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Treatment of ckoliosa involves a complex and sometimes long treatment of the human body. This is because the disease often develops, remaining unnoticed, as it is fixed and grows into a chronic form.
Before you tell what procedure involves the treatment of scoliosis, you need to learn more about this disease. It is customary to call this disease any changes, curvatures in the sides of the spinal column. It starts in childhood and "grows" with the body.
Clinically divided into C-scoliosis, that is simple, having one bend, there is also a form S, characterized by several curvatures. Depending on the age of the patient, the disease can be diagnosed as infantile (up to three years old), juvenile form (up to the age of ten), adolescent form (up to fifteen years old) and scoliotic deformations of an adult. Scoliosis treatment of these forms will be different.
Symptoms of scoliotic disease are as follows:
- Visually from the back - change the vertical spine, from the side - curvature forward (lordosis), as well as curvature back (kyphosis);
- Unbalanced position of the blades;
- Shoulders bend forward;
- Asymmetry of the shoulder line;
- The forward slope shows the bulging and bending of the ribs;
- Asymmetry of the waist line;
- Lying on the abdomen visually visible vypiranie shoulder blades, muscle tissue back;
- Asymmetry of the buttock line;
- Difference in the length of the lower limbs;
- Scoliotic deformations are often accompanied by flat feet;
- Lying on the back is visually visible deformity of the sternum;
- Asymmetry of the knee line, when the legs are tightly pressed together.
The treatment of scoliosis is divided according to the degree and severity level, also the therapeutic measures are based on the roentgenogram. The most effective is the treatment of scoliosis at an early stage, the earlier the disease is diagnosed, the faster and more successful the treatment process will be. The complex of therapeutic measures includes such actions:
- Control the growth of vertebrae, which enter the zone of deformation;
- Elimination of functional compensation of curvature, stabilization of the spinal column;
- Neutralization and decompensation, that is, eliminating the body deflections that compensate for the deformation;
- The appointment of drug treatment, which activates the metabolism.
As a rule, this disease is treated with the help of conservative treatment, much less often with pathological changes in the spine shows operations.
Treatment of scoliosis consists of the following procedures and rules:
- Developed rules of the static-dynamic regime - you need to follow the posture, actively move, perform a set of therapeutic exercises;
- The rules of the orthopedic regime are developed - days of release. When studying in bed, wearing special orthopedic adaptations - corsets, linings, for babies, a dream is shown in a special plaster "crib";
- Appointed drug therapy - chondroprotective drugs, NSAIDs, vitamin complex, phytotherapy;
- Sessions of manual therapy;
- A complex of physiotherapeutic mud procedures is prescribed, electrotherapy, pulse therapy, reflexotherapy.
If necessary, with the children of school age, a psychologist can also engage in order to increase motivation for treatment and remove certain complexes related to the requirements for wearing corsets and lining. The light form of scoliosis is a change in the vertical of the spine by no more than 10 degrees. Curvature reaching 20 degrees is already a disease
Treatment of scoliosis involves responsible and long-term treatment. If you do not act in a timely manner, this disease can give impetus to the development of cardiovascular diseases, the pathology of the respiratory system, the disruption of the functions of the reproductive system. For girls, future women, he is dangerous because he can provoke adnexitis, menstrual irregularities. Accordingly, there may be problems with conception and bearing in the future. In boys, the problems caused by scoliosis, can be no less - this is the inflammatory processes of the genito-urinary tract, and violation of the heart rate and other, no less serious diseases. It is for these reasons that parents should be attentive to the bearing of their children. At the slightest symptoms, you need to contact a surgeon or an orthopedist, as long as there is an opportunity to stop the disease at the developmental stage.
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