I often hear people complain: cervical pain, shoulder tenderness, back numbness. When summer comes, the heat, air conditioning, and a series of bad lifestyles are a big challenge to the cervical spine. How deadly is cervical spondylosis? It’s dangerous! Terribly, medical science also found that cervical spondylosis can cause at least 70 kinds of diseases throughout the body, the following are a few common diseases. 1, dysphagia: a feeling of obstruction when swallowing, a foreign body feeling in the esophagus, a few people have nausea, vomiting, hoarseness, dry cough, chest tightness and other symptoms. 2.Visual impairment: vision loss, eye swelling and pain, photophobia, lacrimation, etc., and even possible blindness. 3, bloating and constipation: Some patients with cervical spondylosis suffer from stimulation and injury to the adjacent cervical sympathetic nerve, which slows down the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract of the internal organs innervated by it. 4, hypertension: blood pressure is significantly increased, called “cervical hypertension”. Since cervical spondylosis and hypertension are both common diseases in the elderly, they often coexist. 5, chest pain: unilateral pain in the pectoralis major muscle and breast, and pressure pain in the pectoralis major muscle during examination, which is related to the compression of the cervical nerve roots of the sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae by cervical spurs. 6.Sudden collapse: sudden collapse due to loss of body support when standing or walking due to sudden head twisting, and can wake up soon after falling. 7, lower limb paralysis: early manifestation of lower limb numbness, pain, limp, individual patients also have defecation, urination disorders, such as urinary frequency, urinary urgency or urinary and fecal incontinence, etc. 8, dementia: once the cervical disc herniation leads to thinning and deformation of the transverse foramen, it will lead to insufficient blood supply to the supplied brain area, and chronic cerebral ischemia causes a decline in cognitive functions such as forgetfulness, which will eventually lead to dementia in the long run. Cervical spondylosis looks insignificant, but the threat to our life and health is very big! I advise friends with bad cervical spine to be careful and not to delay themselves. Here to remind you, and I hope you see to remind the people around you: must pay attention to their own cervical spine health! However, many people think that cervical spondylosis is not a very important disease, rest and rest will be fine, but delayed, the treatment will become more and more difficult, and some even have to do surgery. So we advise you to prevent it early and treat it as soon as possible! The 6 things that hurt the cervical spine the most, how many of them did you get? 1, frequent turning to the pillow When sleeping in summer, the human body due to high local temperature, the number of turns will increase. But the frequent turning and pillow discomfort, it is easy to lead to pillow. Warm reminder: night use of electric fans or air conditioning, the room temperature should be adjusted to the appropriate temperature. Generally speaking, the room temperature at night can be 25 ℃ to 27 ℃. Sleeping pillow can not be too high, not too low, the height is generally the length of the shoulder width, softness to comfort. 2, the posture is not right to lead to pain The weather is hot, more likely to be sleepy in the afternoon. Many office workers are used to snooze at their desks, but often wake up feeling sore neck muscles, swelling, and even pain. This is because the neck for a long time excessive tilt, cervical vertebrae, muscles, ligaments are always in a state of strain. Warm reminder: lunch break or sleep in the car is not advocated forward to sleep on their stomachs, can be taken backward lying position for a short rest. Be sure to find a support point for the cervical spine, such as the back of the neck pad a good roll wrapped clothes or bring U-shaped neck pillow. After resting, you can stand up to do chest expansion and backward movement, is conducive to the recovery of cervical vertebral artery blood circulation function. 3, stay up late to increase tired cervical vertebrae Summer days are long and nights are short, many young people like to arrange a lot of entertainment activities at night, resulting in a significant reduction in sleep time. Daytime fatigue of the cervical spine, the night does not get enough time to recover, and over time will cause cervical pain. Warm reminder: summer must ensure sufficient sleep to give the cervical spine adequate rest. 4, stay at home neck stiffness The hot, hot environment has diminished the willingness of many people to go out, and more people like to stay in the air-conditioned house. This usually leads to a further increase in the time spent watching TV and playing on the computer. Keeping a sitting posture for a long time, coupled with bad habits such as lowering the head or stretched legs, can cause uneven force on the muscles and affect the health of the crestal vertebrae. In particular, long-term low head or computer posture, will make the cervical vertebrae over-tilt, neck stiffness, and the resulting cervical spondylosis or aggravate. Warm reminder: even sitting, do not always keep a sitting posture, often change, and try to stand up every hour to move around. When sitting, you can also properly tilt back a back, the entire crest can play a protective role. 5, frequent blowing air conditioning neck cold in the air-conditioned room for a long time, easy to cause muscle tissue spasm, pain. Neck muscle spasm will not only cause muscle and ligament strain, the physiological mobility of the cervical spine will also change, triggering or aggravating cervical spondylosis. Warm reminder: neck and shoulders as far as possible not to blow against the air conditioner or fan, if you need to stay in the air conditioning room for a long time, it is best to wear a jacket, you can also wear a sarong, so as to avoid cooling the neck. 6, cold shower prone to disease hot to sweat during the day, often want to take a cold shower after coming home. However, the cold is likely to induce cervical spondylosis, resulting in the next day, the head can not move, numbness of the hands and feet. Warm reminder: cervical spondylosis patients should avoid taking cold showers, warm showers can better help restore energy.