From the author: The article provides an analysis of why teenagers go to exercise therapy classes in adolescence. Observing teenagers attending exercise therapy classes to correct poor posture due to scoliosis and kyphoscoliosis, I noticed that the main Some of them are excellent students and teenage girls. Girls made up the majority not because they were weaker; they were only slightly inferior to boys in strength, but in endurance they might even outperform them. The main reason was that girls start puberty earlier, i.e. secondary sexual characteristics appear and they grow earlier. Their main problem was low levels of self-esteem. Having a low level of self-esteem, when secondary sexual characteristics appeared, and more specifically, when the mammary glands began to grow, they pushed the shoulder girdle forward and bent the thoracic spine forward, i.e. They did what is popularly called - hunching over. As a result, they disrupted the symmetry in the shoulder girdle and increased the physiological kyphosis of the thoracic spine, all due to a reduced level of self-esteem. The second triggering factor was the increased rate of body height growth. When teenage girls with low self-esteem began to actively grow, boys from their classmates began to tease them, as a result, the girls tried to correct the situation and again pushed the shoulder girdle forward and bent the thoracic spine forward. Let's now look at an example of the so-called “girls without complexes” . Even if they had problems with poor posture in such situations (the beginning of breast growth, active growth), they straightened their backs, straightened and pulled their shoulders back, raised their chin, i.e. did not verbally tell the world “Look, I’m an adult!” Another large group of clients of the physical therapy room are excellent students. Interviewing the majority of visitors to physical therapy classes in one of the districts of Moscow, I heard a description of the same situation. It is not physical stress that forces them to bend over at school, but psychological stress. THEY ARE MORE AFRAID OF BEING CALLED TO THE BOARD THAN THE F-Students. Every person has a bad mood, poor health, we all someday go to theatres, cinemas, concerts, visit and guests come to us, as a result, the schoolchild did not have time to do his homework. It turns out that MANY schoolchildren do not know that they can approach the teacher and warn that homework has not been completed for objective (or subjective) reasons. Here is a problematic situation: homework is not done, but the teacher does not know about it, the student does not want to lose his social status, but he has a high social status because he is an excellent student. WHAT TO DO? That's right - DISAPPEAR. And the excellent student makes a decision - to make himself invisible by bending and squeezing his body, tensing his muscles and holding his breath, which, as we all understand, is harmful to health. And what about the “C” students when their homework is not completed? Most of them have excellent posture and adequate normal self-esteem. They are CONFIDENT that they will get out, that they will not be asked, that they will be able to retake, that they will be able to write off, etc. and they calmly go through life, breathing deeply, because... the back is straight and the chest is straightened. A separate group of people visiting the physical therapy room are disabled children. They can be easily divided into two groups: dependents and “plowmen”. Any thinking person can understand the motivation of dependents. But “plowmen” are children and teenagers, although limited in physical capabilities, but ready to work in the hall from morning to sunset, or, as people say, plow, plow and plow. These visitors to the exercise therapy room need to be monitored to prevent them from exceeding the required load. Among all the disabled children who visited the exercise therapy room, there are children and adolescents who know why they are sick (of course, there are more of them in the second group, but there are also quite a few in the first). These teenagers, when asked: “Why are you sick?” answered: When I have an attack, my mother takes sick leave, sits with me and bakes my favorite.