The cervical spine needs protection but do not blindly massage it

Prolonged work, low head, sedentary, not only let the office family’s brain tension abnormal, but also make their spine overburdened. More and more young white-collar workers have been or are unknowingly adding themselves to the ranks of whiplash patients. There are many patients with cervical spondylosis after the disease is not to take it seriously, and the treatment is more arbitrary, think that since the muscle fatigue, then choose the massage, both relaxation of the muscles, but also very comfortable, so many people choose to go to all kinds of beauty SPA or barber store relaxation, but in fact, there are great hidden dangers. 1, improper manipulation force Tui Na, massage and other traditional Chinese medicine hand rule of law approach has a lot to say, definitely not just press, pinch so simple, if the manipulation of Tui Na and other improper operation methods, serious spinal cord dysfunction will be aggravated, and even lead to paralysis, endangering the health of patients. This is due to the operator’s technique is too heavy or do not know what to do, so that more than the normal strength of the neck bones and ligaments, or due to the neck lesions have formed intervertebral joint instability or vertebral body destruction, a little force that is dislocated or fracture and compression of the cervical spinal cord or spinal nerve roots, and so on. Therefore, before receiving heavy manipulation massage therapy, we should routinely take positive and lateral X-rays to clearly determine the status of local bone and joints and reduce the occurrence of accidents. 2, not all of the cervical spondylosis can be done massage cervical spondylosis is frequent, massage has become the city people commonly used a therapeutic approach. For the nerve root type, sympathetic nerve type cervical spondylosis, massage therapy does have a certain tendon relaxation, blood circulation and dissipate blood stasis, swelling and pain, slippery joints, and rectify the wrong joints and so on. However, for example, for spinal cord cervical spondylosis, random massage, pounding, traction, not only can not cure the disease, but also may cause greater damage to the cervical spine, serious cases will lead to paralysis or even death. Therefore, if you do not understand the type of cervical spondylosis, experts recommend that patients with this type of cervical spondylosis to do as little as possible or do not do massage, if you have to do, it is recommended to regular hospitals and professional departments of massage therapy. 3, the onset of a variety of factors it will be subject to age factors, chronic strain, trauma, inflammation of the throat, developmental spinal stenosis and other factors and the onset of the disease. Comprehensive view of these causes, simply relying on massage is not able to cure cervical spondylosis.