THE PREVALENCE OF SPINAL DEFORMITIES IN CHILDREN AND DIFFERENECE BETWEEN PRE SCHOOL AND SCHOOLCHILDREN

Authors

  • Danijela Civkaroski Health Center Vranje, Serbia
  • Slobodan Milenković Academy of Technical and Educational Vocational Studies, Department of Vranje, Serbia

Keywords:

spinal deformities, posture, schoolchildren

Abstract

From an early age the posture of man undergoes significant changes. Most of them are pronounced during preschool and school age. Most common diseases during childhood and adolescence ages include postural disorders and spinal deformities. In our study, we wanted to identify the number of existing deformities of the spine and posture in children. Also, we wanted to determine is there a difference of number of these deformities between preschool and schoolchildren. The sample consisted of 940 healthy children. There were 2 groups, one consisted of children aged 6-7 and second of children aged 13-14.The spine curvature was evaluated by plumb line.We used Klein, Thomas, and Mayer method to evaluate the posture. Every child with score 11 and higher was counted as poor posture.We determined the level of statistical significance at p = 0.05.The statistically significant occurrence of poor posture was found. We found an increase of all spinal deformitiesand poor posture in schoolchildren. Of the total number of participants, in the first group 1.86% had, scoliosis, thoracic kyphosis 3.25, lumbar lordosis 1.39% and the most prevalent was poor posture(34.89%). The increase in the second group resulted with higher numbers: 7.25%scoliosis, thoracic kyphosis 3.92%, lumbar lordosis 1.76% and 58.23% poor posture. Analyzed in terms of gender, the percentage of the girls with postural disorders is not statistically significantly greater than that of the boys. As in modern medicine and thus in rehabilitation, emphasis is placed on the prevention of civilization diseases, where spinal deformities and poor posture belong, and the screening of spine and posture of children in school age should be popularized and applied in common practice.The percentage of presence of spinal deformities indicated that there is a need for awareness about the spinal deformities and its effects as well as a need to reinforce the importance of good posture since an early age. Ergonomic risks of school with insufficient physical activity are largely responsible for the increase in spinal problems during school age. This includes non-ergonomically designed benches with poor body position while sitting, which produces muscle pain, fatigue and lack of focus. Excessive carrying of books in a non-ergonomically designed bag causes neck pain, low back pain, poor posture, sore and stiff muscles, and is a daily recurrent microtrauma for the developing spine, especially in the spine with already present deformities, which is being more sensitive.
Reducing the ergonomic risk of schools, adequate exercise and nutrition of school children need to become part of the general program of school measures with the active involvement of students, teachers, parents and the wider community in which the physiatrist would be a link in improving the health of children and youth

Author Biographies

Danijela Civkaroski, Health Center Vranje, Serbia

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Slobodan Milenković, Academy of Technical and Educational Vocational Studies, Department of Vranje, Serbia

Department of Ortopedics, Health Centre Vranje, Serbia

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Published

2022-03-30

How to Cite

Civkaroski, D., & Milenković, S. (2022). THE PREVALENCE OF SPINAL DEFORMITIES IN CHILDREN AND DIFFERENECE BETWEEN PRE SCHOOL AND SCHOOLCHILDREN. KNOWLEDGE - International Journal , 51(4), 591–594. Retrieved from https://ikm.mk/ojs/index.php/kij/article/view/5252

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