When you wake up from sleep, your neck can’t move, you can’t even lower your head, raise your head, or turn around, and it hurts too much to barely move around. Lighter people get up to do appropriate neck exercise, the symptoms gradually disappear, heavy neck pain more and more serious, dizziness, headache, neck, shoulder and back pain, arm numbness and other uncomfortable symptoms. This is often referred to as “pillow”. In fact, many people have heard of this disease, many people have also experienced, do not think that the “pillow” is a minor problem, it may be a signal of cervical spondylosis. Nantong City Hospital of Acupuncture Cao Yun Most due to improper head posture during sleep, the head and neck for a long time in excessive deflection position, or because the pillow is not suitable, too high, too low, too hard, so that the head and neck in over-extension or over-flexion posture, causing muscle tension on the side of the neck, so that the cervical spine small joints obviously twisted displacement, a longer period of time can occur static injury, so that the injury muscle stiffness is not Shu, Qi and blood flow is blocked, local pain and discomfort The injury can be caused by the sudden twisting of the neck and the improper posture of lifting heavy objects, resulting in injury to the muscles, ligaments and synovial soft tissues of the neck and misalignment of the small joints, leading to the drop pillow. Following vertebral joint instability and misalignment, the intervertebral discs can be involved, and the osteophytes will accelerate, which will develop into cervical spondylosis. Therefore, “falling pillow” is often the cause of cervical spondylosis and is one of the causes of soft tissue strain in the neck. It can be a misalignment of one vertebra of the cervical spine or several vertebrae at the same time. It sounds relatively simple, but in reality the situation is more complicated and can never be solved by relaxing the neck muscles. If the treatment is improper, the fallen pillow is not handled well, or the cervical vertebral body misalignment caused by the fallen pillow is not rectified in time, but only a simple treatment to relieve the symptoms, the symptoms are relieved, but the cervical vertebral body misalignment still exists, and finally cause mechanical imbalance of the cervical spine, bone growth, stimulation The surrounding blood vessels and nerves cause a series of symptoms, which gradually develop into cervical spondylosis. Many people say that they don’t remember getting cervical spondylosis without trauma, and it is because of this reason. The prevention of the pillow: 1. to choose a pillow that is beneficial to health, with the pillow improper is one of the reasons for the occurrence of the pillow. 2. To pay attention to avoid poor sleep posture, such as lying down to bend the head and neck to the side; in extreme fatigue is not lying in the right position to fall asleep; head and neck position is not correct, excessive flexion or stretching, etc.. 3. Pay attention to avoid getting cold, wind and rain, and make sure to cover well at night, especially the two sides of the shoulder and neck quilt should be stuffed tightly, or use a sweater around the two sides, so as to avoid getting cold when sleeping so that the wind and cold evil invade the neck and shoulders causing stagnation of qi and blood and damage to the veins and veins and disease. 4. Pay attention to the balance of diet, a reasonable mix of meat and vegetables, more intake of food rich in vitamins, trace elements, calcium, such as fresh vegetables, fruits, dairy products and soy products. 5. To often moderate exercise, especially the cervical spine activities, such as doing the “rice” exercise, the specific practice is the practitioner standing, feet apart and shoulder width, eyes level, hands crossed waist, turn the neck, with the head in the air repeatedly write the “rice” character.