With the popularity of cell phones, people are using them for longer and longer periods of time, and before gathering with friends, eating, or sleeping, the phone stays in their hands! What harm the cell phone can bring to the human body has also been the topic of discussion! Will playing with cell phones for a long time lead to cervical spondylosis? What damage does playing with cell phones do to the cervical spine?
The harm caused by playing with cell phones on the cervical spine
1, causing cervical spine strain injury
When playing with cell phones, the neck droops excessively, the body does not naturally bend, and the neck tilts forward more and more. This makes the human neck thoracic clavicle papillary muscle and then constantly stretch forward, after a long time will be in a state of chronic congestion, over time easy to compress the vertebral artery and cause chronic strain injury.
2.Cervical spine anti-bow
Normal people have cervical spine physiological bending, if there is no physiological bending, or even bending in the opposite direction, known as “anti-arch”. The “cervical arch” is the most common pathological basis of cervical spondylosis. Lie high back to watch TV and long hours on the Internet, lying down to play cell phones and other bad habits, a long time pulling the cervical spine, will lead to its curve of convexity gradually reduced, straightened or even anti-arch.
3, pulling the cervical spine muscles, accelerate cervical degeneration
Lying on the sofa with a cell phone to play, the arm muscles have traction to the neck muscles, long time to keep this action, not only for the cervical spine muscle pull, the formation of the cervical ligament, tendon tension, affecting the blood circulation in the neck. Likewise, this can easily lead to accelerate the degeneration of the cervical spine, leading to the onset of cervical spondylosis, for this unbalanced tension is the trigger of cervical spondylosis to have a correct understanding to avoid the onset of cervical spondylosis as a result.
4.Induced lumbar disc protrusion
The lumbar spine has a normal physiological curvature, and under normal circumstances, the stress points of the lumbar spine are generally in the lumbar and sacral positions. When semi-recumbent, the back waist is suspended, the lumbar vertebrae are in a folded state, and there is no support, the weight of the upper body is pressed to the lumbar vertebrae, a stress point. When standing, the muscles and ligaments of the lumbar back will help support the weight of the lumbar vertebrae, but the muscles and ligaments are in a relaxed state when semi-recumbent, losing the original fixed role, the spine is deformed, the physiological curvature straightened, over time will cause the connection between the lumbar spine disc bulge.
5, lumbar muscle strain
Due to the half lying posture for too long, increase the burden of the lumbar spine, easy to lead to lumbar muscle, ligament strain, resulting in sterile inflammation, easy to suffer from chronic lumbar muscle strain, resulting in chronic lumbar discomfort.
From the above analysis, it is easy to see that long time playing cell phones on the cervical spine caused by the damage is really not small, and can even lead to cervical spondylosis! Cell phones bring convenience to people’s lives, there is no excuse, but if there is no degree of use, will only add to their own worries and bring harm to their bodies!
How to develop good habits, do not do “low head” it?
1, away from digital products
For cell phones, tablets and other digital products, due to the lack of self-control, often into dependence, psychologically can not extricate themselves, while bringing a heavy burden on the cervical spine. Stay away from electronic products and go outdoors to be closer to nature, which is the best and free special medicine for cervical spine disease.
2.Appropriate massage
Massage has the effect of relaxing the muscles and channels, moving qi and activating blood, it can effectively relieve the muscle tension of the neck and back. Neck and back discomfort and even cervical spine activity restrictions are often related to the high muscle tone of the neck and back muscles. In addition, local hot compresses and hot water rinse have a good effect of relieving muscle tension in the neck and back.
3, suitable physical exercise
Some sports can not only exercise physical fitness, but also exercise the neck muscles. For example, cervical and lumbar spondylosis patients are suitable for swimming, especially breaststroke. Swimming is a whole body exercise, when people swim, their upper limbs, neck, shoulders and back, abdomen and lower limbs of the muscles to participate in the movement, which can promote the blood circulation of the whole body muscles, the buoyancy of the water can relieve the tension of the whole body muscles. The action of tilting the head and inhaling during breaststroke not only can effectively exercise the strength of the neck muscles, but also can move the cervical joints and promote the repair of strained muscles and ligaments.