What is the cause of cervical popping?

  Many people often find that their necks “click” when they turn their necks, and always feel that there is a problem with the cervical spine. Then on the Internet Baidu various conditions, will find a variety of introduction and solution. In fact, for us, we may know all the advice they give, but it is difficult for us to do.  In fact, from a medical point of view, there are two kinds of neck ringing: First, the ringing that occurs between the collision of the cervical joints When the cartilage tissue between the joints of the cervical spine, the formation of the joint contact surface is no longer slippery, the joints will occur ringing. Generally speaking, only the ringing, the appearance is not red or swollen, and do not feel pain, not accompanied by activity disorders belong to the physiological ringing, do not need special treatment, and do not need to be too anxious about it. When the joint moves, there is always friction between the joint surface, between the cartilage pad and the joint surface, between the tendon and the joint capsule, etc., and sound is made.  One reason for this is that the deep stabilizing muscles of the cervical spine are not strong enough, or they are not activated.  The concept of spinal stability, where the structures of the spine are able to maintain their normal position in relation to the vertebral body under physiological conditions without causing compression or damage to the spinal cord or spinal nerve roots, is called “clinical stability,” and when the spine loses this function, it is called “clinical instability. “The current understanding of spinal stability in the medical field is divided into two parts: first, mechanically, it refers specifically to the decreased stiffness and increased mobility of the motion segment, which is prone to greater displacement under the same load than a stable spine; second, from a medical perspective, it refers specifically to the excessive motion of the spine, which can lead to pain, potential spinal deformation, and neurological tissue compression damage.  The former is the basis for the latter and the latter is a reflection of the former.  We all know that the spine requires stability as the basis for many of its movements, so spinal stability is critical. The muscles of the spine are divided into superficial muscles and deep muscles. The superficial muscles are the locomotor muscles, mainly the fast and red muscles, which are activated during explosive activity and are recruited preferentially, and large movements occur during shortening and tension.  The deep muscles are stabilizing muscles, located deep in the spine, dominated by slow and white muscles, activated during endurance activity, and selective weakness can be inhibited due to poor recruitment. So when the deep spinal muscles will not fire or weak, spinal stability will become weaker and the vertebrae between the spine will collide and produce a popping sound.  The gradual loss of spinal stability is a gradual process and we should intervene in advance to keep it from progressing to spinal stenosis and spondylolisthesis.  The above causes can be substituted into the cervical spine, the need to solve the problems caused by such causes is naturally the training of the deep stabilizing muscles of the neck as well as activation, can take isometric resistance exercise to practice its deep muscles.  Second, the soft tissues or ligaments of the neck rub against each other to make a sound Strictly speaking, the muscles of our neck are divided into many, many layers. When we are active, the layers are sliding with each other, when we have muscle strain, there is some local inflammatory reaction, the inflammatory reaction will make the sliding between the muscles is not so smooth, so when the activity will appear loud. After the ringing occurs, the original strain parts will be relaxed, we sometimes feel comfortable after two rings, but the good times are not long, comfortable after a period of time, the symptoms will still appear, the main reason or soft tissue strain.  Neck ringing is mainly related to the nature of work, sedentary, long continuous a wrong posture lack of necessary exercise, resulting in neck muscle strain or joint mobility weakening or inflammation, in fact, these are the symptoms of cervical spondylosis.  A turn of the neck is loud on behalf of your body is in the unhealthy. In passing, I would like to mention the pillow, because the pillow is often a minor problem that occurs in our body. The pillow is generally related to cold and exertion. Do not underestimate the pillow, although no treatment pillow will heal itself, but the regular pillow represents your cervical spine problems.