How to protect the cervical spine in life and work

  Cervical spondylosis tends to develop slowly, the patient’s long-term work, sleep posture is incorrect, resulting in neck muscle fatigue, which in turn leads to cervical disc degeneration, protrusion, resulting in spinal nerve compression, causing the occurrence of cervical spondylosis.  1, improve and adjust the sleep position Good sleep rest position is not only needed for normal people, cervical spondylosis patients should be required to maintain a good, physiologically correct, conducive to improving the patient’s pathological anatomy and pathophysiological state of the body position. Because each person has at least 1/4 to 1/3 of the day is spent in bed. If the sleep position is improper, it is easy to cause or aggravate cervical spondylosis. On the contrary, if attention is paid to improving and adjusting the cervical spine in the sleep position and all related factors, can also play a preventive and therapeutic role. The pillow is an important tool to maintain the normal position of the head and neck, the so-called “normal” position, mainly refers to the maintenance of the head and neck section itself physiological curve of the body position.  Pillow shape to the middle of the low, both ends of the high Yuan Bao shape is good. This pillow form can use the middle depression to maintain the physiological curvature of the cervical spine; the head and neck can play a relative braking and fixing role to reduce its abnormal activity in sleep. For those who are not accustomed to Yuan Bao-shaped pillow, available flat pillow, but it is not easy to use the middle high, both heads low hill-shaped, because the head and neck easy to both ends of the activity, not easy to maintain the head and neck body position. The ideal pillow should be soft, breathable, in line with the cervical physiological curvature requirements.  2, correct and change the bad posture at work The posture at work is a very important, but often neglected problem. Bad working position not only affects the treatment and rehabilitation of patients, but is also one of the main reasons for the occurrence, development and recurrence of certain neck disorders. For example, in the case of prolonged flexion of the neck, the pressure on the cervical intervertebral disc and the tensile stress on the cervical back muscle fiber tissue increases compared to the natural supination and extension position, coupled with twisting, lateral flexion and increased load, the local compressive stress is greater, thus constituting a major factor in the intensification of cervical degeneration and fibrositis. This state is especially seen in the staff of the institutions, typists, electronic components and clocks and other assembly line assembly workers. If you can correct and change the bad position at work in a timely manner can obtain a certain preventive and therapeutic effect, the following measures are proposed accordingly.  (1) Regularly changing the head and neck position For some occupations that require the head and neck to rotate continuously in one direction only (more in forward bending and left-right rotation) or to be fixed in one position for a long time, the patient should be allowed to pause for a long time in one direction and then rotate in another opposite direction and repeat several times in just a few seconds. The above actions should be repeated every 30 minutes or so. This is not only beneficial to cervical spine health care, but also can eliminate fatigue, and easy to master.  (2) adjust the desktop (or work table) height and tilt desktop or work table is too high, will make the head and neck for a long time to stretch, while the table is too low will make the neck for a long time to flex; these two positions are not conducive to the internal and external balance of the cervical spine, especially the latter is the most common in the daily, and the most harmful, must be properly adjusted. In principle, the head, neck and chest to maintain the normal physiological curve shall prevail, especially those with cervical spondylosis symptoms, do not overflex, nor is it necessary to overstretch. To this end, in addition to raising or lowering the desktop and chair to adjust, for some need to prolong the case workers, can also be developed with the desktop is 10 to 30 degrees of the sloping work board, which is more conducive to adjust the sitting posture than simply raise the chair or lower the table. This measure is very well received by patients, especially the middle-aged and elderly workers who work for a long time.