You need to sleep on a pillow for bad cervical spine. Mainly because the cervical vertebrae need support, affect the blood flow of the head, may aggravate the condition.
1. The cervical spine needs support: because the cervical spine has a certain physiological curvature, the right pillow can give the cervical spine to provide a full range of effective support, can play a relaxation of the muscles, to maintain the physiological curvature of the cervical spine role. If you do not sleep pillow, the cervical spine without good support, will cause neck muscle fatigue, muscle stiffness and swelling, accelerate the degeneration of the cervical spine.
2. Affect the blood flow in the head: cervical spine is not good if you do not use a pillow then the position of the head will be much lower than the position of the heart and affect the blood circulation in the head, it is easy to wake up dizziness, puffy eyelids, seriously affecting the quality of sleep.
3. may aggravate the condition: do not pillow is also very easy to lead to cervical spine lesions more serious, the patient will also appear to fall off the pillow or even breathlessness, especially serious patients will also be insufficient cerebral blood supply, for the cervical spondylosis patients is a great impact!
So choose a pillow that suits you, such as choosing a softer one, not too high, too low, too hard.
Cervical spine is not good need to sleep pillow, can be under the guidance of a physician, according to the individual’s condition to choose the height and material of the appropriate pillow.