Cervical spine maintenance day and night
The latest survey shows: due to long-term chronic strain, the onset of cervical spondylosis has advanced from 40 years old to 30 years old, and become a veritable white-collar occupational disease. What’s more worrying is that the cervical spine is the most active part of the spine, and also the most important part of the nerve center, which is the pathway of the heart and brain vessels, and once the failure occurs, the consequences are very serious. The 24-hour maintenance of the cervical spine is never better than a rainy day, rather than wait until the cervical spine injury, and then to receive long-term cumbersome treatment, it is better to pre-emptively, proactively, so that the cervical spine by our careful care.
Maintenance secrets a 7: 00
Active temperature adjustment in the morning
The ancients liked to wear long clothes, on the one hand, for etiquette, but in fact, on the other hand, it is also the need to maintain health. No matter winter or summer, it is important to give your cervical spine a comfortable temperature. Even for the sake of beauty, prepare a shawl in the office to protect the back of the neck. Occasionally, if you have a cold, give yourself a bowl of soup to drive away the cold: 2 tablespoons of brown sugar, 7 slices of ginger, decocted in water for 10 minutes, and drink 1 or 2 times to drive away the cold.
Maintenance Secrets II 10:00
5 minutes of cervical spine exercise
Even if you are in a crowded office, you can still do the cervical spine exercise: sit down, do not move your whole body, single head movement, do low, head up, turn left, turn right, stretch forward, retract; clockwise and counterclockwise around the action. Each time adhere to 5 minutes, the movement should be gentle and soft.
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Two types of massage methods
After a morning of work, to two o’clock in the afternoon, the neck may have long been exhausted, some energy is not supported, here are two of the simplest first aid methods: (1) the back of the neck, from the bottom of the skull to the upper part of the torso this section of the distribution of the three points of the hundred points of labor. In the spare no effort to work, may take a few minutes to massage these 3 reaction points, instant relief of cervical fatigue, relax the whole body. (2) the fingers of both hands cross each other, placed in the back of the neck, rubbing the neck back and forth, the strength should be gentle, rubbing 50 times in a row, after the neck is hot, there will be a very relaxed and comfortable feeling.
Maintenance Secrets IV 18:00
Do outdoor sports
Cartilage tissue is not supplied with nutrients through blood, but through changes in pressure. If there is a lack of activity, the cartilage will suffer from malnutrition, which will lead to degeneration.
Maintenance secrets five 21: 00
Learn Roc spread wings
While watching TV, you can learn how to spread the wings of a roc: gently bend your waist to 90 degrees, and stretch out your arms like a roc flying, but lift your head up, the higher the better, and stick to it for 5 minutes. This action can help you increase the toughness of the cervical muscles.
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Enjoy a hot herbal compress
Fry some cumin and half a pound of salt together, put them in a cloth bag and put them on the back of the neck for 30 minutes. Once a day. Can improve blood circulation in the back of the neck and relieve muscle spasm. Be careful not to let the temperature too high or for too long.
Maintenance Secrets VII 23: 00
Choose a healthy pillow
Pillow and bed are also intimate partners of cervical vertebrae, pillow too high or too low, mattress too soft can even involve cervical vertebrae. The width of the pillow should reach the shoulders, the middle of the low, high at both ends of the yuan Bao-shaped health pillow has a good support role for the cervical spine, can let the cervical spine get a good rest; for people with bad cervical spine, wood bed, brown bandage bed is the top choice, and that overly soft bed is certainly not conducive to cervical spine.
Bad habits make the cervical spine aging in advance
The reason why cervical spondylosis patronizes us in advance is because our cervical spine always encounters some damage every day, intentionally or unintentionally, some of which can be avoided, while some of which have to face. And what we can do is to understand their causes in advance and prevent them in the first place.
NO1: strain injury entanglement
[Chinese medicine decoding] undoubtedly, long-term chronic strain is the most important cause of premature aging of young people’s cervical spine. Chinese medicine has “five labor injury”, meaning that if we keep a certain state for a long time, it will destroy the balance of the body, and ultimately damage health. If you keep your head down for a long time to work this single posture, neglect to let the cervical spine rest, so that the neck muscles are overworked, resulting in body gravity all pressed on the cervical spine, long-term, it is possible to induce cervical spondylosis.
NO2: cold and damp sneak attack
[Chinese medicine decoding] women’s physique is naturally cold, easy to cold limbs, especially sensitive to the climate change. Cold living environment, addiction to cold food, underdressed, overworked are prone to damage the body’s Yang Qi, thus making the tendons and bones cold, wind, cold and damp evil easily take advantage of the void and enter. The wind, cold and damp factors in the external environment can make the neck muscles spasm, small blood vessel constriction, resulting in soft tissue blood circulation disorders, over time, it will cause cervical spondylosis.
NO3：Bad posture
[Chinese medicine decoding] human spine has a unique physiological curve, if we violate the law, long-term let it in a posture, will eventually lead to imbalance, poor blood circulation, resulting in injury to the tendons and bones. For example, a long time lying down to watch. TV, snooze in the car are let cervical vertebrae very damaged move.
NO4: deficiency of the body
[Chinese medicine decoding] malnutrition, depression, less activity and other factors may lead to a decline in physical fitness, liver and kidney deficiency, tendons and veins lose nourishment. Once the kidney deficiency will be lumbar and knee weakness, bone calcium loss, degeneration, if it happens to be overworked or cold and damp attack will easily lead to cervical spine problems.
Several symptoms of cervical spondylosis
Once the neck pain, pillow, etc., some people are very nervous, worried that they must have cervical spondylosis. In fact, this situation is mostly due to excessive fatigue of the cervical spine, change the posture and let the cervical spine rest more, generally can be self-relieved. In addition to neck pain, cervical spondylosis usually also has symptoms such as dizziness, dizziness, chest tightness, nausea, vomiting, numbness of the limbs and walking. You can go to the hospital to confirm the diagnosis by X-ray, MRI, vertebral arteriogram, etc.