The main role of back braces is to remind
Keeping your head down for a long time while reading, looking at your cell phone or computer can easily lead to spinal curvature in children. Wen Jianmin believes that children in the growth period of bone plasticity is strong, after the occurrence of scoliosis, “Posture belt” can be used as a brace correction. Sedentary office people, short-term wear can correct bad sitting posture, play a supporting, reminding role, however, long-term reliance on orthosis belt, will cause latissimus dorsi and trapezius atrophy. For facet disorders or congenital spinal deformities, these conditions can not be corrected by external forces. Therefore, the corrective belt is not a universal belt, wear it to treat the symptoms, not the root cause, not once and for all. Want to improve bad posture, must strengthen exercise, the best way to exercise is to strengthen the latissimus dorsi, trapezius, rhomboid muscles and other muscle strength.
For children and adolescents whose bodies are not fully formed, lean against a wall with your back pressed against the wall; sit with your chest out and your spine elevated. Or choose flying Action: lying on the bed, hands on the head, leg extension, correction of thoracic curve. In addition, breaststroke also has a good correction hunchback effect. Adults can choose the daily prone position to exercise, lower limbs relaxed together, arms on both sides of the body, deep breathing, while slowly lifting the head, chest, until the feeling of neck and back muscle tension, soreness, hold for 3-5 seconds and then return to the original position. Repeat 80 to 100 times a day. Not too many times in the early stage, the late gradually increase the number of times. This method can effectively use the back of the neck muscle tension, the hunchback state will be drawn back to the normal state. In addition, hunchback patients can remove the rest of the pillow, flat bed hard.
Hunchbacks in older people are often the result of severe osteoporosis. The lumbar and thoracic vertebrae of the elderly become flat in front, so kyphosis correction is more difficult, to first treat osteoporosis. For the already formed hunchback, it is difficult to conservative treatment, can only stand straight back, lean. Especially serious“Razor back”, side bending, kyphosis and other conditions, can be improved by surgery.