Make the cervical spine easy – exercise to improve your cervical spine

  The years are like flying knives, and the knives make people old. Our human cervical spine in the time of heavy pressure and aging degeneration law slowly lost vitality, which requires us to take good care of the cervical spine, enhance the ability of the cervical spine to resist lesions, through the exercise to Shu Shu live body muscles and bones is an indispensable item. Exercise can relieve fatigue, can also enhance physical fitness, reduce the occurrence of disease hazards. If you are in a sedentary state for a long time, busy in the office and home between two points, lack of exercise, your body will be your laziness and let your health damage, bone degeneration, bone growth, and seriously affect their normal life and work. Many patients are cured of cervical spondylosis by exercising, a method that is not costly and painless and only requires you to take a little time out to cure your body.  Performing the right exercise not only makes the muscles developed, the bones strong and the joints flexible, but also relaxes the muscle ligaments that are in a state of tension, spasm or convulsion, thus effectively preventing the development of cervical spondylosis and getting rid of the disease. I have met many patients in the clinic, and people now have to realize the importance of cervical spondylosis prevention and treatment, and usually have the question, what kind of exercise is suitable for me? What kind of exercise will help my cervical spine? Today I’ll introduce you to several sports that are suitable for the cervical spine.  Badminton is a good choice for white-collar workers who often face the computer, especially those with cervical spine pain, in their spare time, about two or three friends, bring a racket, together to go to the gym or the park to play badminton, one can relax after a stressful day at work, but also through exercise so that the muscles and soft tissues of the neck to get the opportunity to relax and activities to better support the cervical spine. Because it is in the process of playing badminton, the head will do with the movement of badminton forward flexion, back extension, left turn, right turn and other relaxation exercises, not only can active blood circulation in the cervical region to eliminate bruising edema, but also stretch the neck ligament muscles, effectively enhance the strength of soft tissue, enhance its ability to tolerate fatigue and improve the stability of the cervical spine. For people who have been working with their heads down for a long time, the action of looking up at the ball when returning to the high ball can also play a good role in the “reverse therapy” effect. Through this really do “more head up, less head down” requirements.  The hot summer has come, many people like to go to the beach, swimming pool such places to play water to escape the heat, but do not know that swimming itself is a very effective way to prevent cervical spondylosis exercise, especially breaststroke, backstroke alternately. Many of us know that swimming can relax the muscles of the whole body, can make the blood circulation smooth, relax the body and mind, which is more helpful to the cervical spine. Anyone who can swim knows that during the process of changing air in breaststroke, the neck will be raised backward and upward, and the head will be exposed to the water to breathe. Every time you breathe, your neck needs to be raised backwards and upwards, and tilting your head to inhale is exactly the opposite of the two actions we usually take when we work at our desk, which exercises the muscles and ligaments of the neck and moves the cervical joints. Normally we are busy at work, it is best to take 1-2 days a week, each time about half an hour can be, through swimming exercise cervical spine, prevent cervical spondylosis. Here to remind you that although the weather is hot, before swimming in the water or to do a good warm-up activities, the whole body of the muscles and joints to move all open and then enter the water, do not swim in the water too cold, or cause the neck cold, cold rather than lose.  In addition, if you have friends who love to play taijiquan, I also encourage you to choose Chen’s taijiquan, Yang’s taijiquan or other schools to learn and practice in your free time according to your actual situation. Regular practice of Taijiquan is not only a good exercise for limb flexibility, but it also keeps the spine in a constant state of motion, which helps keep the bone and joint system flexible and healthy, prevents osteophytes, stiff joints, and enhances muscle and ligament strength. You can also choose a windy and fresh air holiday to go kite flying in the nature, because when flying a kite, people will unconsciously lift their chests, raise their heads, look left and right, so as to enhance the elasticity of the neck muscles and ligaments and the flexibility of the joints, enhance the compensatory ability of the cervical spine and prevent the metamorphosis of the cervical spine.  Finally, I would like to give you a piece of advice, the occurrence of cervical spondylosis is a long process of continuous aging and metamorphosis accumulation, not formed overnight, exercise can prevent the development of cervical spondylosis, relieve the symptoms of neck pain caused by muscle ligament damage, but the movement also requires a gradual and persistent process of persistence, the same can not play a significant role overnight. Exercise can not be three days to fish, two days to sunbathe. Stop regular exercise exercise, after a period of time, the cervical spine’s ability to adjust will decline, cervical spondylosis, lumbar leg pain, these chronic diseases of the spine generally go through a long development process of more than 20 years. Only persistent exercise can play a role in preventing or delaying their occurrence and development. For this reason, I hope that we develop the habit of regular exercise. Develop the habit of being more active in life and work, develop a hobby of a certain sport, and choose interesting sports content, all of which can help you stick to exercise. Please believe that where there is a will, there is a way.