White collar Xiao Li is a TV series super “fan”, every day after work, the biggest hobby is to nest in bed watching TV series, both domestic drama, RTHK drama, almost an episode is not left, the next day to talk with colleagues on a few episodes. Recently, Xiao Li appeared dizzy and dizzy, finger numbness symptoms. The pillow also gave her a blockage, every day pad high, but how to sleep uncomfortable, thought that work too tired to rest a few days will be fine, did not expect the symptoms more and more serious, and even the phenomenon of chest pain. After coming to the hospital to check, Xiaoli’s cervical spine was found to be a major problem. Many people like to lie in bed watching TV, because of a long time to maintain a posture, the human body activity is less, and at this time, the head for a long time to maintain a posture, the neck muscles will be easy to fatigue stiff, in this case, when the head rotation, muscle response capacity will be weakened, resulting in joint misalignment, muscle sprain, inducing the occurrence of cervical spondylosis, serious and even joint dislocation. ”Half sitting and half lying” is more tiring than ambulating One out of every 10 people in China suffers from cervical spondylosis, and according to China’s population of 1.3 billion people, China’s cervical spondylosis population reaches 120-140 million people. Such a high incidence rate, in fact, is closely related to the incorrect half-sitting and half-lying posture when living and resting. With the rapid development of the social economy, people are under increasing pressure of work and life, many people after a day’s work, used to half sitting and half lying on the bed or sofa to read books and newspapers, watch TV and use the computer, cell phone. That is to say, the head and back rely on the “pillow backrest” or “sofa armrest” reclining, cervical vertebrae by the support of the back object, still like the ambulatory work, or even more than the ambulatory in an overly forward curved position state. Feeling fatigue, most people do not lie down or sit down to relieve fatigue symptoms, but repeatedly “toss and turn”, twisting the body, which is more likely to make the surrounding soft tissue damage, and even cause small joint dislocation. Therefore, this half sitting half lying posture, than the general ambulatory sitting posture more easily and more directly lead to cervical spondylosis. It can be said that this seemingly resting lifestyle is essentially a very important cause of cervical spondylosis and thoracic spondylosis. The correct posture for watching TV should be to take a sitting position. And every 15 minutes or so to look at the activity of the neck, change the posture. Cervical spondylosis is more prevalent in autumn Since autumn, as the weather gradually turns cooler, cervical spondylosis has also reached a high season. A drop in temperature can cause the cervical spine to get cold, resulting in stiffness of the cervical muscles and poor blood circulation, triggering the occurrence of cervical spondylosis. Recently, there has been a large increase in the number of people coming to the orthopedic department for cervical spine diseases. Due to the repeated temperature, the difference between outdoor temperature and indoor air conditioning room temperature is often large, so the exposed neck is susceptible to cold stimulation, making the local muscles contract protectively to avoid excessive heat dissipation. This makes the neck tension increased, easy to appear the neck power imbalance, resulting in neck muscle tension spasm; and then compression to the nerve, blood vessels, then the neck pain discomfort occurred. If the original neck has lesions, it is more likely to induce cervical spondylosis. Some patients with cervical spondylosis have symptoms such as stiff neck, stiffness, pain, restricted neck activities, heavy shoulders and back, hardened muscles, weakness of upper limbs, numbness of fingers, reduced sensation of skin of limbs, etc. Some patients have restricted activities of lower limbs, as if walking on cotton, and some patients have abnormal sensations such as headache, dizziness, loss of vision, tinnitus, nausea, etc. It is recommended to pay attention to neck warmth in autumn and winter, try to wear high-collared clothes and wear scarves outside, so as to avoid cold in the neck and eliminate the triggering factors of cervical spondylosis. At the same time, keeping the neck warm not only protects the cervical spine, but also prevents the blood vessels in the head and neck from contracting due to the cold, which slows down the blood circulation in the brain and is good for hypertension, cardiovascular disease, insomnia, etc. Of course, the presence of symptoms such as neck pain, discomfort and stiffness does not mean that it is cervical spondylosis. Most patients who come to the hospital with the above symptoms do not have clear imaging changes in the cervical spine, such as straightening or retroflexion of the physiological curvature of the cervical spine, cervical osteophytes, and collapse of the cervical spinal space. For them, daily preventive care of the cervical spine, rest and relaxation are much more important than giving medication for pain management. The height of the bed rest pillow is very important, neither too high nor too low, choose the right height is also appropriate to maintain the cervical spine natural head up flat look above the physiological curvature. The stiffness and soreness of the neck that generally occurs for a short period of time can be relieved by a few days of rest and natural body position in bed. However, if the cervical spine is still in a bad working position for a long time and in a bad head-down posture for a long time, cervical pain and discomfort will occur repeatedly and persist for a long time, forming cervical muscle strain over the years, and the physiological curvature of the cervical spine disappears or even becomes retroflexed, which in turn leads to bone hyperplasia and degeneration of the intervertebral disc, evolving into cervical spondylosis. Conservative treatment for patients with mild cervical spondylosis generally prefers traction therapy. Traction therapy can brake the neck, relax the neck muscles, restore the normal curvature between the cervical vertebrae, increase the size of the nerve root outlet, relax the spastic cervical artery, and may even have a retractive effect on mild disc herniation. At present, conventional cervical traction treatment needs to be carried out daily in the hospital, requiring patients to travel to and from the hospital every day and is troublesome. The portable adjustable angle recumbent traction device invented by Dr. Gu Xin can be suitable for patients to traction at home by themselves, just adjust their suitable cervical spine recumbent angle, hang about 1 kg of weight on one end of the traction rope, and then traction can be performed comfortably at home. Traction lasts 1-2 hours a day, and if you insist on it for about 2 weeks, you can have a significant improvement of cervical spine symptoms. Cervical spine massage treatment is often favored by middle-aged and elderly patients with neck and shoulder pain. However, since the massage only works on the acupuncture points and muscles on the body surface, its main effect is muscle relaxation. For patients with existing cervical spondylosis nerve compression, tui na massage cannot cure the root cause. Moreover, due to the instability of cervical spine segments in patients with cervical spondylosis, heavy rotation and flexion/extension of the cervical spine should not be carried out, as there is a serious risk of paralysis and death. Physiotherapy for cervical spondylosis is also a good choice for patients without obvious neurological symptoms, as it mainly improves blood circulation, relaxes muscles and reduces inflammatory edema. If the progression of cervical spondylosis and the compression of the spinal cord or nerve roots are ineffective after regular conservative treatment or still recur and worsen, surgery needs to be considered. Cervical spine surgery is often seen as intimidating by patients because of the risk of spinal cord injury causing paralysis. Dr. Gu Xin said that microsurgery of the cervical spine under the microscope can completely dispel patients’ concerns. The intervertebral discs, dura mater and blood vessels of the spinal cord can be clearly displayed under the operating microscope, and surgical decompression is not only complete but also minimizes the risk of spinal cord injury. The important thing in the treatment of cervical spondylosis is to cure the disease before it happens. If we can pay attention to the daily posture of the cervical spine and correct the bad position, we can largely reduce the occurrence of cervical spondylosis, and the advanced means provided by modern medicine can also ensure that cervical spondylosis is completely preventable and curable.