Most Teenagers to Get a Humped Back

The total abuse of computers and tablets by teenagers can make their back humped. Osteopaths are sounding alarm as they increasingly have to deal with young patients.

15-year-old Englishman Ryan, who used to spend 4 hours per day at the computer, has a real hump. One day the boy’s mother noticed that something had emerged on his back and was visible through the shirt. According to the 44-year-old woman, she touched it and felt the shoulder blade, which bulged on the back. It was a shock for her because Ryan had always had an excellent posture.

However, osteopath Robin Lensman was not surprised at learning the age and problems of the young patient, whom the mother had taken to the doctor. The doctor says that every week he now meets a new teenager, who has the so-called “computer hunch” – bending of the back, caused by constant sloping during prolonged work at the computer.

Even when Ryan was lying on a couch with his favorite tablet in the hands and not sitting, he leaned on the left side, and his back still bent, which contributed to further formation of the right side hump because of the curved spine. Significant effort and a long period of time are needed to remove it now. Ryan will have to attend doctor Lensman, who will carry out the necessary medical manipulations.

The osteopath explains that over time, the teenager’s spine becomes less resistant to such influences and starts to get hunched, as it is always bent. In many people, it causes pain in the neck, back or head, and this is the first complaint, which the parents note in their children. When the doctor examines the teenagers, he often finds running scoliosis, which makes the spine curved in one direction or another. This has become a bit of an epidemic; it depends on the parents whether the child will keep the spine in its original form, or he/she will have to be treated.