On February 1, in the Department of Spine Surgery of the Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province, Xiaoyu (pseudonym), an 18-year-old girl from Taoyuan, Changde, smiled cheerfully and confidently. She had been plagued by severe idiopathic scoliosis for many years, and was discharged from the hospital on the same day with her spine straightened.
With the donation of Zhishan Public Welfare Association, the doctor performed orthopedic internal fixation of scoliosis for her, and her height increased by 7 cm after the operation.
As early as when she was in the fifth grade of primary school, Xiaoyu felt uncomfortable pain in her lower back after standing for a long time, and this situation continued to worsen. When her clothes were thin in the summer, her parents noticed that her shoulders were uneven and the right side of her back was bulging, and they began to think that it was caused by incorrect sitting posture, and bought orthotics in the hope of helping her correct it.
More than a year has passed, and this phenomenon has not improved. In 2022, Xiaoyu's low back scoliosis became more and more severe, and the pain became more intense, so she went to the local hospital for examination, and found that the spine had been severely scoliosis deformity through spinal X-ray**.
The most effective method is scoliosis orthopedic internal fixation surgery, which is difficult and costly, and she has not received a formal ** due to the family's financial difficulties. It wasn't until some time ago that I learned that the Zhishan Public Welfare Association was carrying out the "Chinese Dream Backbone Project" public welfare charity project, and the family saw hope, and Xiaoyu became the first treatment object of the project in Hunan this year.
According to the data of the Spine Disease Prevention and Control Committee of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, scoliosis has become the third most common disease among children and adolescents in China after obesity and myopia, with an incidence of 3%-4%. Scoliosis is more common in adolescence, among which idiopathic scoliosis is the most common, which is unknown, which not only affects the appearance of adolescents, thereby causing a serious psychological burden, but also may affect the function of the lungs and heart, with symptoms such as dyspnea and palpitation, and may also be paralyzed due to spinal cord compression as the disease progresses.
Recently, Xiaoyu successfully underwent surgery in the Department of Spine Surgery of the Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province and recovered well. After being discharged from the hospital, you can live a completely normal life by wearing an external fixed brace for 3 to 6 months.
It is understood that the national medical consumables with volume collection and medical insurance policies have reduced the cost of scoliosis orthopedic internal fixation surgery by 60%-70%, and the donation of Zhishan Public Welfare Association has greatly reduced the burden on patients.
Zhou Shaoming, President of the Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province, introduced that the Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province is the only designated hospital of the "Chinese Dream Backbone Project" of the Zhishan Public Welfare Association in Hunan Province. Consultation for the assistance of adolescent patients with spinal deformities in financial difficulties**: Department of Spine Surgery, Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province, 0731-85232238, Professor Gai 13487564980, Teacher Liu, 13657483548.