When it comes to the most disturbing and not too small disease, in addition to dental disease many people will feel is cervical spondylosis. When not onset and normal people can run and jump, a disease, uncomfortable fidgeting all night. Rehabilitation doctors said that modern people sit more and more move less and less, coupled with high mental stress, so that cervical spondylosis spread unchecked, the old and young are not immune. The sixth hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, director of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Wang Yuling advice, in case you have the misfortune to get cervical spondylosis do not panic, follow the rhythm of the doctor, the neck muscles will be strong, but also “medicine to the disease”.
Cervical spondylosis, also known as cervical spine syndrome, is a general term for cervical osteoarthritis, hyperplastic cervical spondylitis, cervical nerve root syndrome, cervical disc prolapse, and is a disorder based on degenerative pathological changes. Mainly due to cervical spine strain, osteophytes, or disc prolapse, ligament thickening, resulting in cervical spinal cord, nerve root or vertebral artery compression, a series of dysfunctional clinical syndrome.
Wang Yuling said, in addition to chronic strain injury, bad exercise habits, poor sitting posture easily lead to cervical spondylosis, environmental factors are also cervical spondylosis triggers, such as cooler weather, lower temperatures, mental stress, etc.. Because the muscle strength will increase when a person is working, which affects the blood circulation in the shoulder and leads to ischemia and hypoxia in muscle tissue, forming subtle damage, early degeneration of muscle tissue, edema, and inflammatory factors, so we feel pain.
Therefore, when you feel nameless neck pain, you should slow down some work properly, go to decompress, relax your mood and spirit, and the pain will be relieved naturally.
Key words
Sitting, lying down, lying down
For office workers, there are only three positions in the office: sitting (at work), lying down and lying down (during lunch break). Wang Yuling said, for cervical spondylosis patients, these postures are common, but if not done well, the impact is huge and should not be underestimated!
Sitting
(Reminder: this sitting posture can work continuously for 2-3 hours and will not be tired)
Keep the neck in a neutral position, do not lean forward.
monitor height should be adjustable, so that the field of view level flat to about the upper middle of the screen.
the height of the seat should be adjustable, so that when sitting the elbow can be flat on the table, about 90 degrees of elbow flexion
The seat should have a backrest (pillow or towel) behind the seat to give support to the lumbar muscles and keep the waist straight.
Sitting hip flexion of about 90 degrees, knee flexion of 90 degrees, the bottom of the feet is best to have a support plate.
Lie down
(Reminder: nap is best not to sleep on your stomach, when the cervical vertebrae forward flexion, for a long time, resulting in excessive muscle fatigue behind the neck, tense, weak, easy to produce neck pain)
expedient: use a towel or shawl, etc. to pad one side of the arm, the appropriate height of the pillow or towel pillow on the arm, side of the head nap, preferably no more than half an hour.
sleep
Pillow should be “pillow neck”, about a fist height, supine, so that the cervical spine in a neutral position, avoid excessive forward flexion and excessive back extension.
When lying on the side, the pillow should fully support the neck, if necessary, available towel roll around the neck to give full support.
Pillow core preferably with wood cotton or silk cotton.