Каждый ребенок индивидуален – это не секрет.However, there are indicators that children in certain age groups must meet the average statistical standards. Such parameters help the doctor to determine the possible presence of problems from the physical and mental development, and also to assume the presence of any disease.
Assessment of the child's physical development is a very important moment for any doctor and, of course, for parents. What do all these scales, ratings and tables in the life of a baby mean and where do they come from?
When a child is just born, he immediatelygets his first marks. On the Apgar scale, the neonatologist places a certain number of points in the first and fifth minute of a baby’s life. From these two numbers depends on whether he will stay with his mother or he needs additional medical care, the question of the first vaccinations is decided.
After the child is one month old, the mother must always carry the baby on a scheduled appointment with the pediatrician. This happens on schedule when the baby is performed:
На этих приемах в обязательном порядке проводится assessment of physical development on centile tables. They also write down the age when the child began to smile, sat down for the first time, stood up, took the first steps, said the first word, teething terms. Measure:
На основании этих данных и возможных жалоб mothers, the child can be sent for additional tests or reception of a specialist. In other cases, an assessment of physical development is given according to centile tables. The rate of development according to these tables is always considered to fall into the middle corridors, that is, in the range of 25–75 percent. But the child can also develop quite normally, if the data for all indicators are in the same range, below or above the average (in this case they speak about the characteristics of the physique).
To measure the growth of a baby up to a year in the clinic, use a special board with sides. To one of them they press the head of the child, to the other - the legs.
Age | Boy's height | ||||||
Centile interval,% | |||||||
3-9 | 10-24 | 25-49 | 50-74 | 75-89 | 90-96 | 97-100 | |
newborn | 46, 5 | 48 | 49, 8 | 51, 3 | 52, 5 | 53, 5 | 55 |
1 | 49, 5 | 51, 5 | 52, 7 | 54, 5 | 55, 5 | 56, 5 | 57, 5 |
3 | 55, 5 | 56, 5 | 58, 1 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 64 |
6 | 61, 5 | 63 | 65 | 66 | 68 | 69 | 71, 5 |
9 | 67, 5 | 68, 2 | 70 | 71, 5 | 73, 2 | 75 | 79 |
12 | 71 | 72, 5 | 74 | 75, 5 | 77, 3 | 80 | 82 |
Centers tables for boys and girls also contain data for the size of the child’s head. Non-compliance with standards for this parameter is a reason to send the baby to a neurologist.
Age | Boy head circumference | ||||||
Centile interval,% | |||||||
3-9 | 10-24 | 25-49 | 50-74 | 75-89 | 90-96 | 97-100 | |
newborn | 33 | 34 | 34-35 | 35 | 35-37 | 37 | 37, 5 |
1 | 34, 5 | 35, 5 | 36, 5 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40, 5 |
3 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 40, 5 | 41, 5 | 42, 5 | 43, 5 |
6 | 41, 5 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 45, 5 | 46, 5 |
9 | 43, 5 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 46, 5 | 47, 5 | 48 |
12 | 44, 5 | 45, 5 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 48, 5 | 49, 5 |
The physical health of the child is the main indicator of his state of health. It depends on several factors:
Assessment of the physical development of children after a year occurs according to the following indicators:
Methods for assessing physical development strictlythey are unified, since only by measuring under the same conditions and the same instruments, one can speak about the comparability and reliability of the research results.
Assessment of the physical development of the child oftenthis is how it happens: the somatic indicators of the development of a particular child are compared with centile tables according to age and sex. How these tables look for boys can be seen below.
Age | Boy's height | ||||||
Centile interval,% | |||||||
3-9 | 10-24 | 25-49 | 50-74 | 75-89 | 90-96 | 97-100 | |
2 years | 81 | 83 | 84, 5 | 87 | 89 | 100 | 94 |
3 years | 88 | 90 | 92, 5 | 96 | 100 | 102 | 104, 5 |
5 years | 99 | 101, 5 | 104 ,5 | 108, 5 | 112 | 114, 5 | 117 |
7 years | 111 | 113, 5 | 117 | 121 | 125 | 128 | 130, 5 |
10 years | 126, 5 | 129, 5 | 133 | 138 | 142 | 147 | 149 |
For girls, growth rates are slightly different. Up to two years, they are usually slightly smaller than boys, but after catching up and even ahead in growth.
Age | Girl's height | ||||||
Centile interval,% | |||||||
3-9 | 10-24 | 25-49 | 50-74 | 75-89 | 90-96 | 97-100 | |
2 years | 80 | 82 | 83, 5 | 85 | 87, 5 | 90 | 92, 5 |
3 years | 89 | 91 | 93 | 95, 5 | 98 | 100, 5 | 103 |
5 years | 100 | 102, 5 | 105 | 107, 5 | 111 | 113, 5 | 117 |
7 years | 111 | 113, 5 | 117 | 121 | 125 | 128 | 131, 5 |
10 years | 127 | 130, 5 | 134, 5 | 19 | 143 | 147 | 151 |
Methods for assessing physical development include a number of key measurement indicators. They can be studied in the following table.
Sign of | Options | Norm | Note |
Grease deposition | The thickness of the fat fold in the abdomen | 1-2 cm | On the side of the navel and under the scapula |
The shape and characteristics of the development of the chest | Cylindrical, flat, conical, mixed, rachitic, barrel-shaped | Cylindrical | Sometimes in infants, mixed type of chest can be considered the norm. |
Skeleton | Thin, chunky, intermediate | - | - |
Spine | Normal, kyphotic, lordostic | Normal - s-shaped in the sagittal plane | Spinal deformities also include scoliosis. |
Leg shape | Vaulted, flat, flattened | Vaulted (normal) | - |
Evaluation of the physical development of schoolchildren occurs, among other things, by measuring the functional parameters of the body:
one.The vital capacity (volume) of the lungs is an indicator of the strength of the respiratory muscles and lung volume. Measurement is carried out using an air spirometer or water. Age indicators in children of different gender and age will differ.
Age | Floor | |||
Girls | Boys | |||
Volume ml | Force | Volume ml | Force | |
8 years | 1474 | 280 | 1670 | 301 |
10 years | 1903 | 360 | 2000 | 409 |
15 years | 3022 | 433 | 3670 | 729 |
2. The strength of the muscles of the hands - the degree of development of muscles. The measurement is carried out by a device called a hand-held dynamometer.
3. Stanovoy force - the force of the body extending muscles in the hip joints.
4. CHSH - heart rate.
Age, years | Beats Per Minute |
1 | 120-125 |
3 | 105-110 |
5 | 93-100 |
7 | 85-90 |
10 | 78-85 |
15 | 70-76 |
5. Blood pressure starts to measure after seven years. Normally, at this age, the systolic (upper) should be in the range of 100–120 mm Hg. Art., and diastolic (lower) - 60-80 mm Hg. Art.
The assessment of physical development on these indicators is made by comparing individual indicators and average values characteristic of this age and sex group of children.
Mandatory anthropometric data for assessing physical development are used in other methods:
All methods considered earlier only considermorphological data assessments of development, but for a growing person it is natural and necessary to take into account biological development. The complex method includes:
Comprehensive assessment of physical development, whichcarried out in treatment-and-prophylactic institutions, as well as when conducting comprehensive medical examinations, depending on the data set, allows children to be divided into five different health groups:
Assessment of the physical development of adolescents does not differ from the assessment methods used for all children. All tables and scales include data for children under 17 years of age.
Although, of course, we must not forget that the development of girls after nine years and boys after eleven will differ significantly from the development of younger children.
In adolescence, significant changes occur in the proportions of the body and the development of organs and systems:
It should be noted that the accelerating pace of physical development (acceleration) has significantly changed recently the norms of somatic indicators.