From time to time, some videos of babies' passive exercises are hotly discussed in Weibo. There used to be a single grandmother, and recently there was a similar one. The reason why this kind of video attracts so much attention is mainly because these movements look scary, so I want to tell you about the baby's passive practice. Do you really need to do it?

In the recent video circulating in Weibo, a nurse-like person does passive exercise on a two-or three-month-old child, sometimes holding the child left and right, sometimes turning the body with two hands, sometimes pulling the child's upper limb up and down, shaking it left and right, or even dragging only one arm. The whole operation was like acrobatics, and the child's head and neck were completely unprotected, which made people feel scared.

Although these passive exercises seem scary, they are actually sent by parents themselves. The reason why I sent it is because many parents think that it will do a lot of good to their children, especially after listening to some early education institutions that can develop their brains and promote their intellectual and motor development. Parents don't want their children to lose at the starting line.

Are these passive exercises actually useful? Passive Exercise For children with neurological, muscular and skeletal problems, such as cerebral palsy, passive traction may improve limb tension, thus improving limb function. However, for healthy children, there is no clinical evidence that passive exercise can promote the movement, nerves and intelligence of healthy babies. On the contrary, because such a big child is not strong enough to support or protect himself, he is vulnerable to such violent operations.

For example, the children in the video are not very likely to look up. The doctor quickly rolled his body, pulled up his upper arm to get up and raised the child's upper arm in the air. When the child swings from side to side, the head and neck are not protected, which may lead to "baby shake syndrome". Craniocerebral injury or cervical spine injury.

A few months old baby is still very delicate, and the joints and ligaments are loose. Pulling the child's hand makes the child hang up all over the body, which may also cause traction injury to the upper limbs. Pediatricians should think that pulling the upper arm is easy to induce "subluxation of radial head" Many children, even older children, often dislocate because their parents pull their arms. Moreover, children of this age have lower bone strength than adults. Under such rough operation, it may also lead to a child fracture. There have been similar reports before.

In addition, this rough and violent operation can easily cause children's fear and discomfort, which will make children feel insecure and hurt parent-child relationship. In the video, the child kept crying when he was violently turned over. It is precisely because there are no definite benefits and risks that the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement as early as 1988,

1. Programmed infant exercise can not promote the therapeutic benefits for the development of healthy infants.

2. Encourage parents to provide a safe, high-quality and free environment for their children.

Therefore, for healthy children, instead of risking money to do passive exercises for a little vain intelligence improvement, it is better to spend some time with children to play, talk and read picture books freely, which is safe and economical, and can also enhance parent-child feelings. For children with neuromuscular diseases, rehabilitation training should also find a formal medical institution.