In life, many people have experienced cervical discomfort. Unexpectedly, the killers who hurt the cervical vertebrae are some of their bad habits. Find out these killers quickly, and don’t wait until there is a problem with the cervical vertebrae before you regret it.
Killer 1: bow your head or sit for a long time. This is an important reason for the youth of cervical spondylosis. The cervical spine is like a hanging tower, and the rear muscles are slings. If you lower your head for a long time, your muscles will be strained for a long time, which will easily cause cervical disc herniation and cervical instability. People who have suffered from severe cervical spondylosis are also prone to dizziness, nausea and other symptoms due to temporary cerebral ischemia when they suddenly lift their heads after lowering their heads for a long time.
Suggestion: develop a good sitting and standing posture, reduce the time of long-term head bending, such as looking at the mobile phone in the direction parallel to the line of sight. In addition, to “self interrupt” every 45 minutes at work and relax for 5 minutes is a magic weapon to prevent cervical spondylosis.
Killer 2: rough massage, or neck ligament tear. For cervical discomfort, massage treatment does have the effects of relaxing tendons and collaterals, activating blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis, reducing swelling and pain. However, blindly and roughly massaging the cervical spine will have adverse consequences, which will increase the possibility of cervical spinal cord injury. Improper massage of cervical vertebrae can easily accelerate the process of cervical vertebrae disease. Any operation that exceeds the physiological limit of cervical vertebrae and joints may cause local traumatic reactions. Mild cases include local edema, increased exudates, adhesion formation, etc. severe cases can tear ligaments, accelerating the process of cervical degenerative diseases.
Suggestion: if it is only muscle tension and mild neck discomfort, proper massage can relax muscles and promote the dissipation of local metabolites. However, if it is clear that the cervical spine is unstable, the intervertebral disc is prominent or the spinal canal is narrow, do not massage.
Killer 3: if you don’t sleep on a pillow or the pillow is too high, you will cause cervical ligament strain. Many patients with cervical spondylosis think that not sleeping on pillows or low points of pillows can alleviate cervical spondylosis. For people who are used to working with their heads down, sleeping with their heads up may make people feel comfortable for a while. But if this happens for a long time, the ligaments in the neck will be strained for a long time, which will be harmful to cervical health. Similarly, too high a pillow is not conducive to cervical rest, which will break the normal curvature of the cervical spine and aggravate cervical diseases.
Suggestion: the proper pillow height should maintain the junction of cervical vertebra and trunk in a normal physiological position, rather than over bending, over tilting or left-right deflection. If you wake up and feel uncomfortable in your neck and dizzy, you should change your pillow.
Killer 4: sitting on a soft sofa will increase the incidence of cervical spondylosis. Many people like to watch mobile phones and TV on the soft sofa after work. They feel relaxed and comfortable after a hard day. In fact, this is a big mistake. The more tired you are, the more you need to maintain the physiological radian of your cervical spine and even the whole spine. Sitting on the sofa can only aggravate the invisible damage of musculoskeletal.
Suggestion: you should sit as few soft sofas as possible. Even if you want to sit, you should sit as straight as possible. The “sitting like a clock” that has been circulating for thousands of years in China is scientific. If you’re too tired, you’d better lie down than lie down. If standing or sitting cannot maintain the physiological position of the spine, the best way to resist gravity is to lie down.
Killer 5: wearing high heels will quickly increase the pressure on the vertebrae. The spine is connected by multiple vertebrae, and the contact surface of the two vertebrae is almost planar. When we are upright, the vertebrae are in face-to-face contact, and the stress is dispersed, which is not easy to damage. Wearing high-heeled shoes will cause people’s center of gravity to move forward excessively, cause pelvis to tilt forward, increase the curvature of spine, reduce the contact surface between vertebrae, and concentrate the stress points of lumbar vertebrae and cervical vertebrae, even to one point. In this way, the pressure on the vertebrae will increase rapidly, which is easy to cause damage.
Suggestion: for the sake of healthy spine, it is better not to wear high heels. If you really want to wear it, the heel should not exceed 5cm, and it should not exceed 4 hours a day.
Killer 6: lying on the table to catch up on sleep can easily lead to cervical spine deformation. Many people sleep on their desks when they take a nap. This posture makes the neck lean forward, causing changes opposite to normal physiological bending. Over a long period of time, it is easy to cause cervical spine deformation, neck muscle fatigue, and cervical spondylosis.
Suggestion: when you need to catch up on your sleep, you’d better lie down. If you can’t, put a soft cushion or pillow in front of your chest as a cushion instead of putting your head directly on your arms.
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