Falling pillow is one of the factors that trigger neck and shoulder pain. Repeatedly falling pillow can lead to some kind of cervical spondylosis, accelerating the premature degeneration, calcification or stiffness of the cervical spine and neck ligaments, and even neck muscles, so that the basic movement of the patient’s neck is greatly restricted. If the treatment is improper, it can also aggravate the neck injury and symptoms. Therefore, for the pillow, not only good at prevention, but also good at treatment. Any hasty and sloppy disposal will result in serious consequences. The key to preventing the pillow is two points. One to maintain a good, stable sleep posture. That is, to ensure that the head when sleeping, especially the pillow, always located on the pillow, do not slip off the pillow, even if the frequent turning, but also in the subconscious mind to form to prevent the head from slipping off the pillow of the concept of preparedness. Of course, to do this, especially for adolescents, is more difficult and requires years of training, coupled with parental guidance, or even a period of observation and reminder from a thoughtful parent while the child is sound asleep, before it is possible. To have an ideal, suitable for the individuality of the pillow. It should be soft and hard, long, wide and high properly, especially the height of the pillow, to strictly control, never believe in the myth of “high pillow without worry”. Whether adolescents, or the elderly, are not suitable for high pillows. To know, too high pillow will head elevated, so that the normal convex arc of the neck straightened, or even backward bending, to the back of the neck muscles, ligaments in a long-term stretching state or tension spasm state, is bound to cause soft tissue strain after the neck, affecting the stability of the cervical spine; high pillow will also increase the vertebral artery into the skull base of the curvature, causing insufficient blood supply to the cerebral basilar artery, causing dizziness and brain swelling, neck pain, the next day, low work efficiency. What’s more, the pillow is too high so that the neck forced forward flexion, stimulating the carotid bulb pressure receptors, reflexively causing vasodilation, blood pressure drops, blood flow becomes slower, easy to make some elderly people due to cerebral ischemia and cerebral infarction. The harm of high pillow can be seen. To develop good sleep habits. Ingeniously hold the head and neck and torso axis consistent sleep posture, especially adolescents, to develop a good habit of lying on the pillow from childhood, consciously train, control their own turn, to achieve a gentle and comfortable, coordinated and balanced, and strive to avoid the state of distortion of the neck sleep for too long. Middle-aged and elderly people pillow relatively less, probably because of the long-term self-restraint, self-restraint experience, to reach today’s realm. So a what kind of pillow is suitable for you? Generally speaking, the sleep application height moderate low pillow, soft pillow, preferably Yuan Bao pillow. According to expert recommendations, the appropriate height of the pillow is about my a fist to a half fist, equivalent to 6-1Ocm; pillow length over both sides of the shoulder lOcm or so can be. Do not high pillow. Whether adolescents, or the elderly, are not suitable for high pillows. But no pillow sleep okay? Some people are worried about the pillow, take no pillow sleep such an extreme behavior. In fact, it does not work. Supine due to excessive head back, the cervicothoracic spine connection is too far back, will feel uncomfortable; front of the neck soft tissue is also taut, will compress the trachea, affecting breathing, easy to do nightmares; supine often open mouth breathing, easy to produce mouth in, dry tongue, sore throat, or snoring. If you lie on your side without a pillow, the other side of the neck muscles will be in a state of excessive tension, but also prone to “pillow”. Therefore, no pillow sleep only in specific circumstances, such as the need for treatment, occasionally for, in general is not desirable.