11:50 p.m
Thursday 25 August 2022
I wrote – Omnia Qalawun:
Dr. Hani Abdel Gawad, Consultant Spine Surgeon, explained that family members are the most likely people to detect scoliosis in a growing child.
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He added that there are a number of signs that appear on the child, and the father or mother can notice them early on the child with curvature, including:
Asymmetry in the waist area, meaning that one of them enters or departs from the normal pattern of this region.
Unequal shoulders, where one shoulder is lower than the other, and most likely the problem is in the right shoulder.
The consultant of spine surgery indicated that there is an exercise to detect scoliosis in children, and it can be applied by asking the child to bend, to detect the protrusion of part of the ribs in the thoracic vertebrae that are higher than the other, while the lumbar vertebrae have a higher part than the other. .
The consultant spine surgeon recommended the necessity of resorting to a doctor who specializes in pediatric spine surgery, to ensure that the child may have scoliosis.
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