It’s time to pay attention to bone health
The number of scoliosis among primary and secondary school students in my country has exceeded 5 million, and it is still increasing at a rate of about 300,000 per year. Bending has become the third major disease that endangers the health of children and adolescents after obesity and myopia. At the same time, it is not uncommon for young white-collar workers to suffer from cervical and lumbar spine diseases, as well as joint injuries and even fractures caused by sports. It seems that it’s time to put a lot of emphasis on bone health.
Cervical and lumbar diseases are gradually increasing, which is essentially the projection of the development of the times on bone diseases. With my country’s economic and social development and industrial structure upgrading, a large number of young people have moved from “workshops” to “workstations”, from “using punches” to “using computers”. Under this change, sitting for a long time and bowing your head for a long time has become an important cause of bone diseases in many young people. The “Healthy China 2030” Plan Outline promulgated in 2016 not only affirmed the remarkable achievements made in the reform and development of my country’s health field, but also clearly pointed out: “Industrialization, urbanization, population aging, changes in disease spectrum, ecological environment and lifestyle changes. It also brings a series of new challenges to the maintenance and promotion of health.”
Faced with these new challenges, we must focus on implementing the “Healthy China “2030” Plan Outline” and the “Healthy China Action (2019- 2030)”, accelerate the promotion of primary and secondary school health promotion actions and occupational health protection actions, and actively study the inclusion of new occupational hazards such as work stress and musculoskeletal diseases into the scope of protection. At the same time, schools and employers are encouraged to improve their teaching and working environment, especially the height of desks and chairs, etc., to focus on the evaluation of table and chair heights, and to include common skeletal diseases in school, employment, and annual physical examinations of employees, etc. A learning and working environment for bone health.
With the development of the times, people’s health concept is also developing. Ensuring the bone health of young people depends on the joint attention of the whole society.
(Author: Wei Que)
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Tips for maintaining healthy bones :
(1) Increase the importance of bone health, and check in time if there is any discomfort.
(2) Maintain a standard sitting and standing posture, and avoid bowing your head and sitting for a long time.
(3) Develop good exercise habits, step by step, and avoid surprise exercise.
(4) Avoid random activities after a fracture occurs, seek medical attention in time, and reduce secondary injuries.
(5) Ensure adequate intake of calcium and vitamin D in daily life, and reduce intake of tobacco, alcohol and other substances.
(6) Bone density test should be done regularly to prevent osteoporosis.
(interviewed by our reporter Jia Yueyang)