Nowadays, the network is so developed that when it comes to how to deal with neck pain, the first thing that comes to mind is “Dou Niang”. When you search on Baidu, there are thousands of pages about cervical spondylosis. The information on the internet is like water in a sea, and friends who know little about medicine are likely to be overwhelmed by the vast amount of information and thus mislead themselves. The 6 “killers” of cervical spondylosis are uncovered one by one, and one by one, see how many strokes you have been hit. Killer 1: prolonged low head or sedentary office long time low head reading books, reading cell phones, and many people habitually walk with their heads down. There is now a social work pressure, especially computerized office, many people sit for several hours. These are undoubtedly important reasons for the rejuvenation of cervical spondylosis. Because of the excessive pressure on the cervical vertebrae when the head is lowered, the cervical vertebrae are changing in forward flexion, the cervical vertebrae are like a sling tower, the rear muscles are the slings, if the head is lowered for a long time, your cervical vertebrae must not withstand the strain, easily causing cervical disc herniation, cervical instability, etc. People who already suffer from serious cervical spondylosis, after a long time low, suddenly lift the head, but also easy to temporary cerebral ischemia caused by dizziness, nausea and other symptoms. Suggestions: adopt a good sitting and standing posture, reduce the time of long-term head down, such as looking at the cell phone can be placed in the direction parallel to the line of sight. However, many patients complain that there is no way to take time to relax from the busy work, “self-interruption” once every 45 minutes at work and relax for 5 minutes is the first major treasure to prevent cervical spondylosis. Why 45 minutes, 45 minutes a lesson for elementary school students is the study of countless health experts developed. Killer 2: blind massage, or to tear the ligaments of the neck For cervical discomfort, massage therapy does have a certain role in soothing the muscles and channels, blood circulation, swelling and pain relief. But blind, rough massage cervical spine will have adverse consequences, but increase the possibility of cervical marrow injury. Blind, rough massage cervical spine easy to accelerate the process of cervical spine pathology, any operation beyond the physiological limits of the cervical spine bone and joint, may cause local traumatic reaction. The lighter local edema, increased exudate, adhesion formation, etc., the heavier ligaments can tear, accelerating the process of cervical degenerative lesions. Suggestion: If there is only muscle tension and mild neck discomfort, appropriate massage can relax the muscles and promote the dissipation of local metabolites. But if it is clear that the cervical instability, disc herniation or spinal stenosis, firmly opposed to massage. Killer 3: do not sleep on the pillow or pillow too high, will cause strain on the ligaments of the neck Many patients with cervical spondylosis believe that not sleeping on the pillow or sleeping on a very low pillow so as to relieve cervical spondylosis, in fact, too low pillow or even without a pillow, will make people in sleep for a long time to keep their heads up, for people who are used to working with their heads down, tilting their heads to sleep may make people feel quite comfortable for a while, however, if continuously so The neck ligaments are tense for a long time, there will be strain, which is not good for the health of the cervical spine. Likewise, too high pillow is also not good for the cervical spine. Because the pillow is too high, this breaks the normal curvature of the cervical spine, which will aggravate cervical spine disease in the long run. Suggestions: there are many orthopedic experts to sleep on what kind of pillow to do a lot of point analysis, I think the most important point is that your pillow to maintain your cervical spine and torso junction parts of the physiological position, rather than too flexed, too supine or left and right skew. In fact, a pillow is not suitable, you can feel it. If you wake up, feel uncomfortable neck, drowsy head, it is recommended to replace the pillow suitable for you. Killer 4: sitting on a soft sofa, will lead to increased incidence of cervical spondylosis Now people get off work, like to nest in a soft sofa to read, read the newspaper, watch TV. Think tired a day, so do very relaxed and comfortable. In fact, this is a big mistake. The more tired in the time, the more to maintain the cervical spine and even the entire crest of the physiological curvature, nesting on the sofa will only aggravate the invisible musculoskeletal damage. This is because the human crest is moving between the bones, normal by strong muscles to maintain stability; strain when the muscle or tension, or weakness, this situation nesting in the sofa will lead to abnormal changes between the bones. Suggestion: everyone should sit as little as possible soft sofa. Even if you want to sit, you should try to sit straight, the Chinese have been passed down for thousands of years, “sitting like a bell” is its science to the. In the body’s most strenuous time, if standing or sitting can not maintain the crest physiological position, then the best way to resist gravity is to lie down. Killer 5: wearing high heels, rapidly increasing the pressure on the vertebrae Orthopedic experts can write several pages about the dangers of high heels, for example: the human crest is connected by a number of vertebrae, the contact surface of the two vertebrae is nearly flat. When our posture is upright, the vertebrae are in contact with each other, and the forces are dispersed and not easily damaged. Wearing high heels will cause the center of gravity to shift excessively forward, causing the pelvis to tilt forward, making the crestal curvature increase, causing the contact surface between the vertebrae to become smaller, and the lumbar and cervical vertebrae to be concentrated at the point of force, or even concentrated to a point. In this way, the pressure on the vertebrae will rapidly increase and easily cause damage. Therefore, when high heels are worn more often, this damage will accumulate and will eventually lead to lumbar pain and cervical spondylosis. Recommendation: For a healthy crest, it is best not to wear high heels. If you really want to wear, it is best not to wear too high. Killer 6: lying on the table to make up for the sleep, easy to lead to cervical deformation Now we all work under great pressure, noon in the workplace on the spot to rest. Often are in a very sleepy time directly on the table to sleep. This posture requires the neck to lean forward, resulting in the opposite of the normal physiological bending changes, over time it is easy to lead to cervical deformation, neck muscle fatigue, and cause cervical spondylosis, etc.. Suggestion: when you need to catch up on sleep, it is best to lie down. If you can’t, put a soft cushion or pillow in front of your chest as a cushion, instead of putting your head directly on your arms. Of course, I have a high method of catching up on sleep, which is to sit and try to maintain the physiological curvature of the crest, close your eyes and go to sleep. It only takes a few minutes of sleep to come back to full blood from extreme fatigue. This is a trick I worked out in between each surgery during the long night emergency surgeries back in the day.