Children and backbone

Do you know the composition of your spinal column? Why do you feel pain in your spine? Is your posture correct?

We will help you, dear children, and your parents answer these and many other questions.

This may as well be called a school for good posture, for a spine at risk, for patients with scoliosis.

Correct posture: is a condition where the skeleton and the muscles are in perfect balance, which protects the supportive body structures from injuries and deformations at work and while resting. The correct posture is the posture we are capable of holding and which is painless.

Spine at risk: are the already visible signs of a transformed spine. However, this condition has not yet turned into scoliosis.

Scoliosis: is a side-to-side curvature of the spine with simultaneous rotation of the vertebrae. Scoliosis occurs due to an unbalanced activity of the muscles and bands in the injured part of the spine, which affects the development of the vertebrae.

Goals of the Programme:

• to strengthen the weakened muscles;
• to stretch the shortened muscles;
• to improve posture.

The Programme will be performed from Monday to Friday in the afternoons and will comprise 5 –10 hours.

Day 1: basic information on the composition of the spine, a Programme presentation, an evaluation of the child’s posture, a free swimming option.

Day 2: performance of exercises adapted to the needs of every individual, exercises on the ball, a stretching display, a free swimming option.

Day 3: a repetition of the exercises adapted to the needs of every individual, performance of basic exercises (breathing exercises, exercises on the ladder, free exercising), stretching, and a free swimming option.

Day 4: exercises performed in a pool, a free swimming option.

Day 5: performance of exercises on the ball, basic exercises, exercises we have learned throughout the Programme, a free swimming option.

Dear Parents,

It is of extreme importance for your children to get to know their spine and receive instructions for improving their physical exercising in a correct manner, which will help them to overcome their problems due to an incorrect posture.

The Physiotherapists, who will manage the Programme in cooperation with the Doctors, warmly welcome you to Terme Zreče.

In order to form the groups (age, spine problems), please, apply for the above-mentioned Programme by calling the telephone numbers

+386 3 757 62 73 and +386 3 757 62 75

(Physiotherapy) or by writing to simona.zaloznik[@]unitur.eu

from Monday to Friday between 8.00 and 14.00.