Soon after school starts, have parents noticed that their children are prone to fatigue and have strange pains such as shoulder headaches or hip pain?
After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the students did not go to school normally for more than a year. In addition, after the summer vacation, many students are used to "stalls" at home, sitting and doing their homework, or lying sideways. Combing to watch TV.
These "hea" explosive postures seem to be very relaxing, which can cause strange pains, and they are easy to get injured when they want to resume activities.
In addition to improving posture, students should also do aerobic exercise for at least half an hour a day, which can restore physical fitness and prevent severe pain after they grow up.
Written by: Lan Fang, Hong Kong Registered Physiotherapist
After the outbreak of the epidemic, students used ZOOM to attend classes at home for a long time. The lack of exercise not only easily became fat, but also prone to lazy postures without supervision. "While combing the warm book, or sitting cross-legged on one side and playing with mobile phones, etc.
In the summer vacation, the body "hea" is used to doing sports and it is easy to be injured
Primary school students have high physical flexibility and seldom have immediate pain due to bad posture, but they have begun to "pave the way" for future pain.
However, middle school students enter the developmental period or their bones begin to grow slightly, and they are used to bad postures "hea" and suddenly have to resume activities or attend physical education classes. They are prone to fatigue and strange pains, such as wrist joints and both sides of the thighs, shoulder headaches or hip pain .
Students looking at their mobile phones or playing on the phone for a long time can cause pain.
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Sometimes the students themselves don’t know it, but the parents find that they are sitting like a bowed shrimp, "you can sit upright if you sit at the extreme" or "don’t sit upright when you’re sitting at the extreme." Sitting cross-legged causes uneven force on the left and right feet.
They are also prone to injuries when they do exercises. For example, running is prone to "sticking" or spraining their knees; when playing basketball or volleyball players move upwards, they tend to strain their necks or shoulders.
Persistent bad posture in adults can cause long-term pain
Although the young students have high resilience and the odd pains usually only last for a short time; but when they enter the stage of bone formation, such as girls from 13 to 15 years old or boys from 15 to 17 years old, the long-term persistent bad posture will have a high chance of causing bones in the future. Slightly underdeveloped, can cause long-term pain in adulthood, the most common are waist, neck, and back pain.
Many adults who seek medical treatment suffer from pain due to poor posture at a young age, resulting in slightly unbalanced muscle or bone growth, cold back or high and low shoulders, and they need to be treated.
Intervertebral disc disease, cartilage abrasion, or ligament tears that often occurred in middle-aged people in the past have also become younger in recent years, appearing in people in their 20s and 30s.
Doing homework for a long time without paying attention to posture can easily affect bone development.
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Do aerobic exercise for at least half an hour a day and recommend swimming
Students should prevent odd pains and recover their physical fitness to cope with the new school year. In addition to improving their posture, they should do at least half an hour of body sweat every day, and perform aerobic exercises for at least five days a week, such as running, hiking, skipping rope, cycling, etc. Ball sports and swimming.
Swimming helps students recover their physical fitness to kick away the pain.
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Swimming or water gymnastics is best. Even if you don’t know how to swim, you can do stretching exercises in the water, such as straightening your hands and turning your waist, swinging your shoulders in a large circle in the water, or running in the water, which can stimulate core muscle activity.
Stairs can also help improve cardiopulmonary function and lose weight. It is best to use an outdoor ramp or stairs. You can walk back and forth a few more times.
Other simple full-body exercises, such as big-character jumping, squatting down and getting up and jumping, will make the whole body move, which are equally effective.
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