Unique operation freed schoolgirl hump

In the Krasnodar Regional Clinical Children's Hospital team of surgeons was made on the eve of a unique operation on the spine, 16-year-old schoolgirl, who suffered from advanced forms of scoliosis. Supervised activities of specialist doctors from St. Petersburg, professor, deputy director of Institute. GI Turner Sergei Vissarionov. Complex procedures should relieve young patient from severe pathology - gibbosity.

Crook in the back   the girl began to rise 3 years ago, local media reported. Physicians, which alarmed parents brought her daughter was diagnosed with scoliosis of the fourth degree.

The operation to remove the pathological curvature of the spine It lasted five hours. This violation of the structure of the spine were so severe that surgeons had to remove four of the intervertebral disc and insert a special metalwork.

"Finally fixed deformation and zastabilizirovali position" - described the essence of the operation, Professor Vissarionov.

A successful outcome of the operation (and the doctors themselves assess the results of their work as high), the rehabilitation period does not last long. Two days later, the girl will be able to stand up, and a month goes to school. The growth of the patient to get rid of the hump to increase by 10 cm.

According to experts of the spine as a physiological system already has several natural curvatures, without which its function is "elastic spring" of the human body would be impossible. In cases where such S-shaped bends acquire hypertrophied form ( hunched back, the deflection sacral spine ), This leads to disruption of the support function and the occurrence of various bodily deformities, including gibbosity ( crook in the back   - One of its variants).

Scoliosis causes rachiocampsis It can be congenital (abnormal development of the vertebrae), as well as purchased. Most often it occurs in children aged 5 to 15 years, especially among schoolchildren. The development of scoliosis thus contributes to wrong posture during training sessions, because of which are unevenly distributed load on the spine and back muscles, and as a result - there is a change in the morphology of the spine, formed resistant forms of curvature. Finally, scoliosis in children may be due to suffering severe rickets.

In adults, scoliosis may develop as a result of protracted asymmetric load on the back muscles (occupational disease violinists, seamstresses, porters, etc.). Or because of a fractured vertebra, its destruction some painful process, especially tuberculosis.

Physicians are reminded that the prevention of scoliosis is much more effective than its treatment. Kids at the first sign of disease (if it is not associated with injury or disease of bones and joints), in consultation with your doctor, you need to create conditions to facilitate the load on the spine. They are assigned to vitamin-rich food, smooth hard bed, air and sun baths, outdoor games, gymnastics. All children with initial signs of scoliosis should be strictly prescribed by the doctor to perform exercises to strengthen the muscles of the trunk and support the correct position of the spine. Early detection of scoliosis, spinal cord injuries caused by inorganic and rigorous, patient compliance with the preventive and therapeutic recommendations of the doctor in most cases, give good results.

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