The dragon is an important totem and symbol of the Chinese nation. Through the traditional Chinese civilization, it is easy to see the importance of the dragon in the hearts of the children of Yanhuang. So what is dragon bone?
There are three main interpretations of keel: one is the keel in Chinese herbal medicine, that is, the fossil of ancient vertebrates, in which one of the important evidences of Chinese civilization, oracle bone inscription, is found; the second is the central structure of a ship, which is the most important part supporting the whole hull; the third is the human vertebrae, and in some southern regions of China, it also refers to the vertebrae of pigs. In this article, we are going to talk about the human vertebrae.
The human spine is an organic whole composed of 25 vertebrae and their associated intervertebral discs, ligaments, small joint capsules and other connections, with four physiological curves from top to bottom: cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral, with the cervical and lumbar curves convex to the front and the thoracic and sacral curves convex to the rear. The spine is what keeps our bodies standing, moving and working, allowing our bodies to move freely and the spinal cord to be protected.
What is wrong with the keel?
According to a survey, 80% of people over the age of 40 in China suffer from various spinal disorders. Why does such a large percentage of the population have spinal problems? I’m afraid we have to talk about it from the perspective of biological origin.
Humans, a special group of vertebrate species, are characterized by their upright walking. Ordinary vertebrates usually take a crawling, flying, or swimming posture during movement, and their spines are parallel to the ground, with adjacent vertebrae arranged horizontally, so there is no problem of pressure transmission. Since humans walked upright, the change in posture caused a change in spinal mechanics, the vertebrae of the spine from the horizontal arrangement without the influence of gravity to the vertical arrangement of the direct interaction of gravity, like a stack of bricks stacked vertically, the more down to the lower level, the greater the pressure. Although over millions of years of evolution and natural selection, the human spine has adapted to withstand the pressures of an upright position (for example, the intervertebral discs of humans are thicker than those of ordinary mammals such as pigs and sheep), it is still unable to escape the limits of the laws of nature, and a variety of spine-related diseases have emerged.
Why are spinal diseases becoming younger?
Case data from orthopedic and physical therapy departments of specialized hospitals show that the age of onset of cervical/lumbar spine disorders has advanced from 40 to 30 years old.
A healthy spine has optimal joint function, which allows the torso to be in a state of easy and comfortable movement, but also allows external forces from all directions to be evenly distributed to all parts through the normal spinal alignment, and when the body encounters sudden situations such as stumbling, swaying, vibration, and loss of footing, the flexible vertebral curvature will fully display the stretch and support to cushion and resolve external forces. Studies have shown that the human vertebrae stop developing around the age of 20 and begin to degenerate around the age of 30, when the vertebrae degenerate, the vertebral line is deviated, it can not effectively resolve the impact of external forces, thus prone to damage to the vertebrae. While normal degenerative changes occur in the human spine, the chronic stimulation of the spine due to young people not paying attention to good habits of life and work details, has led to the occurrence of the phenomenon of rejuvenation of spinal disease. For example: improper physical exercise and improper work posture, causing sprains, which can easily induce spinal disease. Bad sleeping habits and unscientific bedding such as pillow height and bed hardness improperly caused by excessive ligament and muscle tension, resulting in strain injury, spinal disc herniation and other spinal diseases. Long-term in the air-conditioned environment so that the body is cold, affecting local blood circulation, accelerating the degeneration of tissue around the spine. Unhealthy way to lose weight to create and unbalanced nutrition in the diet with the body metabolic disorders, especially calcium, phosphorus metabolism and hormone metabolism disorders, etc. are prone to induce spinal disease.
Is your keel healthy?
The nature of work in modern society often requires long and continuous repetitive work, such as computer software designers usually for a project to tackle the following workflow: always with the screen opposite, 2, 3 days stay up late, 4, 5 buckets of instant noodles, and finally a big sleep. This kind of work habits for the human spine and the overall functional system are causing great damage, may be able to slow down when young, but as we grow older, physical discomfort will increasingly prominent. In summary, the occupations most likely to suffer from cervical spondylosis include: entrepreneurs, computer engineers, designers, accountants, teachers, doctors, office workers and people who work in the same posture for a long time, and the probability of spinal disorders in these groups is significantly higher than in other occupations.
As a white-collar worker, if you want to know whether your keel is healthy, please refer to the following symptoms: whether you feel stiff and uncomfortable in the back and neck. Whether you find that your two legs are not the same length. Whether you often feel tired and have difficulty concentrating. Do you find that the heels of your shoes are worn unevenly high or low? Do you feel that you have less range of motion in your head or hips? Do you find that your toes spread outward when you walk? Do you feel like you are unable to take long, deep breaths comfortably? Is there a constant feeling of tension and stress. Are there sounds in the jaw, neck, back or more joints when you move. Is there a headache, pain in the neck, lower back, soft tissue pain in muscles or joints.
How to treat your keiki well?
I. Buddhist “Four Noble Rites” help you to walk the dragon
The four Buddhist virtues require us to “walk like the wind, stand like a pine, sit like a bell, lie like a bow”. Do not maintain a posture for more than an hour should be slightly active body. Try to avoid long-distance driving, long rides in cars and airplanes and other means of transport, and strive to change position on the way to the spine to get sufficient rest. Sitting in the sofa need to avoid the waist deep in it, to maintain the normal physiological shape of the waist convexity. Modern working conditions, white-collar workers often have to work with their heads down for a long time, or buried in the file, or head down to focus on the operation, or long-term gaze at the computer screen, the cervical vertebrae in the opposite of the normal convexity of the curved state, so appropriate rest is quite necessary, in between the rest of the neck activities to improve blood circulation in the stiff neck, can effectively prevent the occurrence of cervical spondylosis.
The sleep time of white-collar workers is often very lacking, and the phenomenon of staying up late is more common. Ensuring adequate sleep time is a prerequisite for effective prevention of spinal diseases, and the correct and effective sleep posture should be chosen. Thousands of gold to recipe – Dao Lin nourishing sex “pointed out that” bending the knee side, the benefit of people’s energy, better than lying down “, China’s ancient medical literature further pointed out that the general population to the right side of the bed is good. For example, the ancient medical text “Lao Lao Heng Yan – sleep” says: “If you must want to sleep after eating, it is appropriate to the right side to Shu Qi.”
In our country there are several reclining Buddha, Buddha is the right side lying posture, it can be seen that the ancients have made a clear choice of sleeping posture. Modern science also believes that when lying on the side, legs slightly flexed, the whole body is easy to relax, conducive to lifting fatigue, the entire spine in a normal physiological position of extreme relaxation. In addition, when lying on the right side, the blood oxygen content is 19% higher than the left side lying position, the heart burden is small, while more beneficial to food absorption in the digestive tract, transit, the smooth operation of blood and improve detoxification and increase the ability to resist disease.
Second, life is exercise
Choosing the right sports and exercise is indispensable for spinal health care. Strengthen exercise, through medical sports, health exercises and other means to strengthen the spinal muscle strengthening exercises to enhance its function in order to maintain a better stability of the spine, through exercise to maintain a standard weight also helps to reduce the pressure on the intervertebral discs, slowing down the degeneration process. All exercises, especially swimming has a significant health effect on the entire spine, when people swim, the relative position of the spine to the original state of ordinary vertebrates – parallel to the ground, and in order to breathe air, the head will naturally stretch out above the water, so that the cervical vertebrae are fully stretched, improving the adverse effects caused by long-term head down in daily life, so that the body The muscles on the back side are exercised and strong to maintain the stability of the spine.
When moving heavy objects, try to take the push, rather than pulling the way to reduce the incidence of “flash back”. When carrying items, try to keep the items close to the body, the items will be divided into two small bags than a large bag can reduce the pressure on the spine.
Third, clothing, food, housing and keel health
1, clothing: When it comes to clothing, the most concerned should be the white-collar ladies who attract everyone’s attention. There are often female patients who come to the clinic complaining of shoulder discomfort, especially shoulder and back pain, chest tightness, dizziness, nausea, upper limb numbness, and a pins and needles feeling when the head and neck rotate. In fact, many of these cervical spondylosis symptoms are caused by too small bras, clinically known as bra syndrome. Long-term use of narrow-band bra size is small, the skin seems to wear a fine wire, when the human body continuous activity, the upper limb shoulder muscles constantly in motion, while the bra is in a very small area of the skin frequent friction, over time, can make these muscles overworked, blood circulation disorders and aging. Women in the workplace, often wearing bright high-heeled shoes, I do not know that the heel more than 4-6 cm shoes, is more than the health care standards, these shoes make the human body negative gravity line greatly changed, the pelvis tilted forward, the waist back. Excessive lumbar back extension makes the back muscle contraction taut, lumbar vertebrae small joints and joint capsule in a state of tension, long-term, joint capsule and lumbar back muscle that occurs strain, causing lumbago. The consequences of lumbar muscle strain, so that the most weight-bearing, the most active lower lumbar vertebrae suffer the most, may develop into lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, lumbar spondylolisthesis. At the same time, wearing high heels, the whole body’s reaction, synergy, but also prone to lumbar sprain, manifested as acute lumbago, but also can aggravate the original symptoms of lumbago.
2, food: China’s food culture has a long history and is world-renowned. But China’s white-collar class, many belong to the kind of money to eat, but there is no time to eat the kind, usually boxed lunch, lunchbox to deal with a little, immediately put back to work. Can take care of their own diet belongs to a rare minority, which is also an important reason why this group is in a state of sub-health. The irregularity of the diet time, unbalanced nutrition with many white-collar workers or l like the West, or heavy than the mountain. Poor nutrition makes the early arrival of osteoporosis, overweight so that the spine is overwhelmed. Perhaps many people will be to it: so fine dietary requirements? No time! But we can make an analogy, for the car should use 97 gasoline we add 90 gasoline, the result will be what? That is, early stalling, but will waste more time, not to mention sustainable development.
3, live: human life, 1/3 of the time is spent in bed, so choose a good bed, for the usual work pressure is quite high white-collar workers is particularly important. The current modern young generation, sleeping on a basic Simmons and other mattresses, and this mattress should be how to make a choice? Too soft bed easy to cause spinal deformation, cause or aggravate low back pain, choose a mattress with a certain degree of hardness, so that the spine basically maintain a normal physiological curvature, so as to help prevent or alleviate low back pain, improve sleep quality; and for friends who like to sleep on a hard bed, it is best to lay a suitable thickness of soft cushion on a hard bed (mattress can also be); in addition, lying down when the knees under a pillow or side lying two feet in a pillow can help reduce the pressure on the spine. Then the bed there is another accessory that can not be ignored, that is, the pillow. What kind of pillow to meet the requirements of physiology? A variety of health pillows on the market are endless, in fact, as long as you grasp the principles, you can even DIY suitable for their own heart pillow. Pillow core: buckwheat hulls, mung bean hulls, dried tea leaves; shape: low in the middle, high at both ends of the metaphorical pillow; length: more than their shoulder width 10 to 16 cm; height: head and neck after pressing down, and their fist height equal or slightly lower. Meet the above requirements, I believe our white-collar friends can get a more healthy sleep.
Once again, please remind: people of the dragon, please pay attention to your keiki.