Prevent back pain better in childhood

Prevention of back pain in children
Back pain has become a true common disease. Although mainly elderly people are affected, but prevention can not be started soon enough. According to health experts, this should be started as early as childhood.

Prevention can not start soon enough
Back pain has become a true folk disease. The number of people who need to be treated for such complaints keeps increasing. As recently reported, last year just under 37 million Germans visited a doctor for musculoskeletal or connective tissue disorders. In order not to let it happen, you should prevent the complaints. And best of all in childhood.

Although older people in particular suffer from back pain, prevention should be started as early as childhood. There are some playful exercises for that. (Image: Köpenicker / fotolia.com)

Strengthen your back through exercise
Especially older people are struggling with back pain. Because back problems are mostly muscular in most cases, it is usually advised to strengthen the back by exercise.

Reinhard Schneiderhan, President of the German Spine League and orthopedist in Munich, recommends in a message from the news agency dpa to start with the prevention as a child.

Poor posture and poor posture
"The foundation for a healthy back is laid at a young age," wrote the German Spine League in an earlier release. Paediatrics thus found in two out of three children poor posture and poor posture such as round or hollow back. "Remedy would be easy to create - simply by more movement," say the experts.

Reasons for back pain in children include the fact that they spend too much time sitting and also that the school bag is too heavy. The weight of the satchels depends, for example, on the age and length of the way to school.

Playful exercises for children
To prevent back pain, Schneiderhan suggests a few playful exercises in the dpa message. So for a strong abdominal and butt muscles towel races offer. You stand on a towel and try to move forward by moving the feet as fast as possible.

In addition, parents can set up an obstacle course for their offspring, for example, out of chairs, through which the little ones then crawl through on all fours to strengthen their hulls. (Ad)