[The juvenile vertebral column from the sports medicine aspect (author's transl)].

A new model of prophylactic sporting activity has been developed in the Cracow School Sports Center. Children and adolescents with postural lesions and various kinds of spinal curvature which did not exceed 15 degrees, including pubertal diseases of the vertebral column practise there types of sport adapted to the given physical characteristics, in order to avoid the appearance of painful conditions in the vertebral column region.