Caring for the cervical spine takes only 30 seconds

  We live in Guangzhou, facing all the pressures of life and work, do we have time to take into account our cervical spine? Generally few people will go ahead to prevent, are waiting until the disease has developed to a more serious, a series of irritating symptoms to go to reason it, it is too late to regret. Because of these stimulus symptoms, although you can eliminate or relieve the symptoms through massage orthopedic, physical therapy and other treatment methods, but easy to relapse.  We all know that we have seven cervical vertebrae, the physiological curvature is convex, of which C1, C2 and C7 cervical vertebrae are special. In fact, the cervical spine is very interesting, each cervical vertebra has a corresponding nerve root, and when a vertebra is misaligned, it will produce the corresponding irritation symptoms, and we can then localize the diagnosis according to the patient’s irritation symptoms, and then combine it with imaging and palpation to achieve good results when resetting.  Recently I found a very interesting phenomenon in the clinic, that is, many people are not used to using pillows, or use very short pillows, when using a higher pillow will appear nausea, vomiting, neck muscle tension, heaviness and other uncomfortable reactions. Through consultation, we can find that these people work with their heads down for a long time, and X-rays show straightening of the physiological curvature of the cervical spine, antitension, and discontinuity of the posterior border line of the vertebral body. I introduced the physiological curvature of the cervical spine is convex, many people use the pillow is to put the pillow to the occipital bone there, because the supine position, our thoracic vertebrae are attached to the bed, if the pillow is high or the cervical vertebrae themselves are straightened, this causes the cervical vertebrae overhang, cervical vertebrae on both sides of the continuous pull, and then the stiffness of the neck muscles, cervical spine straightening. Long-term muscle strain not only causes local muscle stiffness, but also tends to cause poor stability of the cervical spine, which is a vicious circle, which is why cervical spondylosis is prone to recurrence.  People have about a third of the day in sleep, this period is the best time to relax the cervical spine, so choose a pillow is important! In fact, there is no saying which pillow is good for this statement, as long as you find a pillow suitable for you, then what kind of pillow is suitable for you?  Pillow generally choose not easy to deformation, supine position, the pillow can be close to the cervical spine, does not cause suspension, and can maintain the normal physiological curvature of the cervical spine is good; side lying position, the pillow should be a little higher than the pillow used in the supine position, taking into account the side lying position, the upper limb upper arm contact bed, to be high enough pillow to hold up the cervical spine, so that the whole spine of the human body in the same line, not biased to one side. The pillow that meets this requirement is suitable for you and varies from person to person.  Some exercises can also exercise the muscles of the cervical spine, such as swimming, badminton, etc. After more than 30 to 40 minutes in the office, I think 30 seconds of activity can prevent cervical spondylosis! I do not advocate using the head to write the word “m” and do cervical spine rotation movement, which will aggravate the cervical spine misalignment. I think the cervical spine can do its functional exercise, such as tilt back for 6 seconds, turn left for 6 seconds, turn right for 6 seconds, tilt left for 6 seconds, tilt right for 6 seconds.  Use 30 seconds to care for the cervical spine. I believe that a good cervical spine can bring us a good state of mind.