Each fifth has scoliosis - the curvature of the spine. The diagnosis is obtained by a few, especially few people seriously apply to this disease and trying to be treated. But if you do not start treating scoliosis as soon as possible, there is a high chance of becoming disabled.
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Scoliosis is taken underestimated: it is considered something like «Do not bother — And okay, so comes up». The scoliosis of the first degree is treated easily, with the help of domestic exercises and elementary power rules and life organization. Skoliosis of the second degree, especially the third and fourth, to treat much more difficult, but in these cases, the hedgehogny medical gymnastics will be useful.
Since scoliosis does not tolerate self-medication, the whole physical education recommended for independent execution is based on strict rules. Main — no asymmetric exercises and exclusively basic elements that strengthen the muscles of the back, but not actively directly on the spine.
Walking on skis and swimming — The first thing that any orthopedist advises, seeing the curvature of the spine in both children and adults. If you can, use the services of your clinic and go to free physical education classes. The physical physical physician not only follows the technique of performing exercises, but will help you choose those that you need, will teach you and give permission to house.
Precautions for home leaf
- If you have never played sports, start with the simplest load. Let the exercises seem too easy for you, work out the technique. Only when you are confident that you perform the simplest perfect, you can increase the number of repetitions and add small weights.
- Watch for posture! Loosen, you will spend in vain time. Direct Back, Scattered Shoulders — Mandatory condition for any basic exercise during scoliosis.
- Forget about the horizontal bar! Pull the spine with scoliosis is strictly prohibited, if there is no direct recommendation of the doctor — neurologist or orthopedic.
- It is extremely careful to do exercises for flexibility. If they are not prescribed by a doctor, the best solution — They are avoided.
What basic exercises can be performed at home
- Squats.
- Exercises from position lying on the stomach: lifts of the head, top of the body and legs.
- Exercises from the position lying on the back: foot lifts, «bicycle» and similar.
Basic exercises of gymnastics during scoliosis
- Workout: Hands, jump and run on the spot, high raising your knees. Workout time — 2–3 minutes.
- Lie on the stomach, hands are free to lie along the body. Inhale, tear off the head and shoulders, hold your breath and position for 15 seconds, exhale, go back to the original. Repeat minimum 5 times. If the exercise is given to you hard, start with two or three times, in a week of daily gymnastics, increase the execution of one repeat.
- Lying on the stomach, kick your hands behind the head, but do not clutch your fingers. Feet hooked for the sofa so that they do not break off from the floor. (Or ask someone from home to keep the legs on the floor: even a four-year-old child will cope.) Insphat, tear off the floor, shoulders and part of the case, exhale and return to the original. Perform 10 times. If you can more — well, but watch the muscles of the back are not overwhelmed and did not begin to root. The main rule — graduality. This exercise is recommended to perform twice a day — in the morning and evening.
- Lie on the stomach, put the palms on the same level with your shoulders, pour them into the floor. Inhale and smooth, raise your legs above the floor, hold down for 10 seconds, exhale and also smoothly and slowly return the legs to the floor. Make 10 repetitions.
- Variation «Fish». Lying on the stomach, hands along the body, take a deep breath and at the same time tear the legs, head and shoulders from the floor. If you can, delay for a few seconds, go back to the original and exercise another 10 times. If hard, make 5–10 repeats without pause.
- Lying on the back, hands stretched along the body, perform alternate mahs legs. Movement similar to the movements of the legs during swimming on the back. As soon as you feel that the loin is tired, take a break.
So that the child does not have scoliosis
If you read this article, then you have scoliosis. Prevention will not make your back straight, but will add efficiency to the exercises without allowing the transition to scoliosis to the next stage. But the child who has a spine is still smooth, you can help not earn curvature.
- Teach the child to keep posture. Check, straight a back, it is possible: leaning against the wall, the heels are tightly pressed to the plinth, the shoulders are stripped, caviar, buttocks, the blades and the heads concern the walls, the back is not flashed in the lower back. With such a back you need to learn to walk.
- Offer for children a simple and cheerful exercise-competition: who hesitate the book longer on his head, without dropping her.
- When a child sits at the table, his hands should be bent in the elbows at an angle of 90 degrees. If the child works at the computer, the screen should be placed directly against the eye. Lighting — Bright enough, from the working hand.
- The chair's seat must be adjusted so that the legs of the child stand on the floor, and the back was smooth. If a child is sitting at an ordinary adult table, put a bench at the foot.
