Osteoporosis is a group of bone diseases caused by a variety of causes, and is a metabolic bone lesion characterized by a decrease in the amount of bone tissue per unit volume. The onset of the disease is mostly slow, with individual rapidity, characterized by skeletal pain and ease of fracture. The main clinical symptoms are pain, shortening of body length, easy fracture, and decreased respiratory function.
The incidence of osteoporosis is higher in women, and women in their 30s and 40s and even in their 20s may suffer from this disease. Many women rarely exercise to keep warm and avoid the rain in the cold spring, laying a “time bomb” for the occurrence of osteoporosis.
Health care guide]
1, adjust the diet structure, to avoid excessive intake of acidic substances.
2, smoking will affect the formation of bone peaks, excessive alcohol consumption is not conducive to bone metabolism, drinking strong coffee can increase urinary calcium excretion, affecting the body’s absorption of calcium, excessive intake of salt and protein will also increase calcium loss.
3, exercise can promote the body’s metabolism. Outdoor exercise and the right amount of sunlight exposure is conducive to calcium absorption. The muscle contraction and direct pull on the bones during exercise can help increase bone density.
4, to prevent calcium deficiency must develop good habits, such as singing karaoke all night, playing mahjong and other bad habits, will aggravate the acidification of the body.
5, in the spring, the sunlight from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. is the best. Among them, the sun is best from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., ultraviolet light is low, making people feel warm and soft, which can play a role in improving the microcirculation of the skin, and the elderly especially need more sunlight during this time. In addition, the sun legs can be good to drive away the leg cold, effectively relieve calf cramps, and can accelerate the absorption of calcium in the legs, so that the legs bones more robust.
The cervical pain people should not wear low-necked clothing in early spring
The day before yesterday, 23-year-old white-collar Miss Li, due to neck pain discomfort to the clinic, complaining that because of the cold, often in front of the fireplace holding a laptop computer to surf the Internet, after the diagnosis of cervical spondylosis. After symptomatic treatment with drugs, local physiotherapy and massage, Miss Li’s symptoms were quickly relieved and discharged.
Cervical spondylosis is caused by cervical disc degeneration, cervical spine osteophytes, with neck and shoulder pain, radiating to the head and occipital region or upper limbs as the main manifestation, serious cases of bilateral lower limb spasms, walking difficulties, resulting in quadriplegia.
In the past, most of the cervical spondylosis appeared after 40 years old, but now many professional women, in their 20s, often say that neck and shoulder pain, arm numbness, dizziness, etc.. This is because of the cervical and lumbar activities less, long hours of ambulatory work and caused by poor blood circulation, then cause cervical and lumbar spine lesions.
Health care guide]
1, the spring climate is erratic, women wear low-necked or collarless clothing, easy to make the evil of cold and damp straight in the neck, so that the neck muscle spasm, inducing cervical spondylosis. Therefore, it is best not to wear low-necked clothes too early, and pay attention to protecting the neck to keep warm. In addition, spring is the golden time for cervical spondylosis, should do more health care conditioning. Should also adjust the pillow and sleep position, you can take the side lying position, or supine position, not prone.
2, correct the bad body position at work. Constantly change the head and neck position, avoid maintaining a posture for a long time. When working for a long time, look away regularly. Adjust the height and tilt of the desktop to fit with the body.
3.Do self-traction. Cross your fingers together, raise your head over the occipital neck, tilt your head back, and keep traction for 5 to 10 seconds in the direction of the head with both hands, 3 to 4 times in a row, which can play a role in relieving the pressure of the intervertebral space.
4, wearing a simple neck circumference, can limit excessive movement of the neck, while playing the role of neck support. The production of the neck circumference, with cardboard shell cut into a high collar shape, so that the height of the neck to adapt to the outer wrap of fleece.
Spring is windy and evil waist and legs should be warm and moisture-proof
Winter waist activity is less, easy to cause waist muscle relaxation and atrophy, in the spring suddenly increased activity, it is easy to induce lumbago.
Spring is a windy season, according to Chinese medicine, “wind is the longest of all diseases, and good at moving and changing”, meaning that wind is an external pain-causing factor, and the disease has the characteristics of wandering and scurrying, pain is not only limited to the waist and legs, but also accompanied by the symptoms of joint pain and restricted movement of the whole body. Some patients with chronic low back pain are very sensitive to climate change and have difficulty adapting to the changing weather in spring, resulting in recurrence or aggravation of the chronic disease.
Health care guide
1, pay attention to keep warm, moisture. Chinese medicine believes that “cold is painful, cold is the main stagnation, blood and Qi is not smooth, the meridians are not smooth, not pass is painful”, so living, working and learning environment should be warm and dry.
2, work or exercise, to use the correct posture. Bad posture can cause various injuries to the lumbar spine, correct posture can reduce the wear and tear of human bones and joints, muscles and ligaments. For example: when lifting heavy objects first knee flexion squat, and then lifting heavy objects is less likely to damage the waist.
3, to maintain a good sitting posture. Good sitting posture can make the lumbosacral ligaments, muscles, etc. are not overly stretched, so that the lumbar vertebrae and even the entire spine to keep upright. After an hour of sitting work, you should stand up and kick your legs, stretching.
4, do not sleep too soft and too hard bed. Hard beds are not comfortable to sleep on, soft beds are easy to sleep on and cause deformation of the spine, and over time there will be back pain. The most appropriate bed, is a 5 to 10 cm thick mattress on a plank bed.
5, healthy diet. For back and leg pain caused by excessive obesity, one of the treatment measures is to moderate the diet to reduce the burden of obesity to the lumbar spine.
6, strengthen exercise, early treatment of disease. The elderly can usually run, do health exercises, play tai chi, etc., so as to enhance the mobility of the bones and joints, the durability of the muscles and ligaments, so that the joints and bones get adequate nutrition. If the waist and other accidental sprains, need timely and thorough treatment to prevent the transformation into chronic back pain.