”In autumn and winter, there will be a peak of cervical spondylosis, which is related to the drop in temperature, the cervical spine is cold and blood circulation becomes poor.” When it comes to the treatment of cervical spondylosis, experts point out that many people take tui na, traction and massage as lifesavers and insist on trying them regardless of whether they are suitable or not and whether the method is good or bad, which may instead backfire. The most recommended behavior to protect the cervical spine is to swim breaststroke and do McKenzie cervical exercise.
First, tui na and traction are only effective for certain conditions.
Not all cervical spondylosis can be relieved by physical therapy and exercise, and some of them require surgery. If it is obvious cervical spondylosis in which the nerve root, vertebral artery and spinal cord have been compressed, the treatment should be according to the treatment specification; cervical type, shoulder and neck strain, physiotherapy, sports exercise, compressing medicine treatment, the acute period will be painful, physiotherapy, compressing medicine on the attack symptoms can disappear, if the physiological amplitude, instability factors are not corrected, after a while, strain will also attack, so we should cooperate with the usual posture, adhere to the movement. Proper exercise and physical therapy can maintain the cervical spondylosis from aggravating and improve the physiological curvature of the cervical spine, but it is more difficult to return to normal because the ligaments and structure have been changed.
To completely change cervical spondylosis, surgery or traction is required. Some people take traction as a lifesaver, and when the cervical pain becomes unbearable, they run to the hospital and ask for traction. In fact, traction is only meaningful for cervical spondylosis of the nerve root type (with the symptom of unilateral hand numbness), and is basically ineffective for other types of cervical spondylosis. Moreover, traction must be based on imaging diagnosis, otherwise it may be wrongly involved and lead to incontinence, paralysis, etc.
The elderly are not suitable for traction because they have poor bone, muscle and ligament elasticity, the more they pull the looser they are, the more likely they are to have problems.
Second, the strength of the neck massage is not the greater the better.
Mr. Wang is addicted to massage massage, because his neck is prone to strain and even cervical spine problems, every massage he asked the masseur to press more cervical spine, and to push hard, so that after each massage, he will feel much more comfortable. Each time you press will be comfortable for a while, but soon after another attack. So he became a regular customer of the massage center, frequent patronage.
Although neck massage is good for muscle relaxation, blood circulation and relief of edema, but it is not a panacea. First of all, massage strength is not the greater the better, massage strength is too large, muscle fascia thickening, leading to fasciitis. “Strength to massage after feeling a slight sense of soreness and swelling is enough, to grit your teeth to bear the strength is not appropriate, the first two days after the massage feel pain indicates that the massage is too strong.”
Secondly, do not often massage, some people massage once a day or two days or three times a week to massage, the frequency is too high, generally 1 time a week as the highest frequency; again, massage after the cervical spine problems are not necessarily relieved, which will have to go to the hospital for systematic rehabilitation treatment. In addition, some people think that the protruding disc can be pressed back, so that the greater the strength of the more effective. In fact, this is not possible. Through the thick muscles and bones, it is impossible to press the discs. In addition, cervical pain and discomfort, not only because of mechanical compression of the intervertebral disc, but also the stimulation of its metabolic chemicals.
As for some people think that more massage, cervical spine pain will become lighter and lighter, this may be their own adaptation. The chronic pain of cervical spine pain can be slowly adapted to the human body, just like eating a small amount of chili pepper at the beginning also feel spicy, eat the same amount after a period of time will not feel spicy.
Third, cervical spine protection has 3 moves.
1, swimming breaststroke is better than playing badminton.
Experts pointed out that the cervical spine problems, is only a muscle problem or disc problems. Neck muscle exercise less, resulting in poor muscle support; intervertebral discs are as elastic as jelly, because of abnormal posture or age degeneration leading to intervertebral foramen narrowing, intervertebral discs are compressed and squeezed on the nerves, there are many cervical spondylosis hand numbness and other symptoms. Bear the neck by the seven cervical bones is not enough and unstable, to rely on the outside wrapped muscle tissue. We usually use a lot of oblique muscles, erector spinae muscles and other large muscles that do the action, small muscles play a role in stabilizing the joints, but usually rarely used. If the small muscles of the neck support to improve, the intervertebral discs will not be squeezed. Therefore, the exercise of the neck muscles is the key to the prevention and treatment of cervical spondylosis.
Breaststroke is the best exercise to exercise the cervical muscles, playing badminton is not suitable instead. “In general, many people are ‘weekend athletes’, usually no exercise habits, only in the weekend indiscriminate exercise, most of them play badminton are uneducated, their own groping to learn, before the movement and do not pay attention to the preparatory exercise, catch the ball when a fierce head, but easy to hurt the cervical spine! ” Indeed, there are patients because of improperly playing badminton appeared frozen shoulder, tennis elbow to seek medical attention. Playing badminton is especially not suitable for people with cervical spondylosis, otherwise it may aggravate the cervical small joint dislocation. Comparatively speaking, swimming puts the neck in a non-weight-bearing state, and, it must be breaststroke to have such an effect.
2, the turn circle is not good, the risk of rice exercises.
Neck turn circle, rice word exercise …… cervical spondylosis is becoming more and more common at the moment, a variety of cervical spine exercise also came into being. But experts believe that the correct cervical spine exercises, can improve muscle fatigue tension, blood circulation and nerve compression, but also restore the physiological curvature of the cervical spine, cervical spondylosis play a good role in prevention and health care. However, not everyone is suitable to do cervical spine exercises, not all cervical spine exercises are worthy of promotion.
”Previously popular turn your head 360 ° cervical spine exercise, has now been basically eliminated, because it is harmful to the cervical spine, easy to lead to dislocation of the neck joints.” Some people think that the neck turn click sound is the meaning of reset, in fact, this just shows that your cervical spine bone gap becomes narrow, small joint misalignment, cervical spine is not strong and unstable. The cervical spine may be reset between the twisting of the head, but such a misalignment will occur frequently, and the frequently misaligned cervical spine is prone to sprain. “For example, the same emergency brake, others are fine, you may be paralyzed!”
The current popularity of the rice word exercise, but also not everyone suitable. Beige exercise is a unidirectional activity, better than turning head cervical spine exercise, but many people in doing oblique front, oblique rear movement, the neck is difficult to avoid following the rotation, which is the same as turning head exercise, causing damage to the cervical spine, but is not conducive to cervical spine health, but also easy to strain the muscle. Moreover, rotating cervical spine exercises and rice exercises are not suitable for the elderly.
3, recommended McKenzie cervical spine exercise.
Practice the McKenzie cervical exercise designed according to biomechanical methods, exercise the neck muscles and restore the physiological curvature of the cervical spine. Sitting and lying exercises can be practiced, for the average person, sitting exercises cervical spine (2 minutes) can already exercise the muscles around the cervical spine to a large extent, to prevent cervical spondylosis. He also said that people of any age can practice this cervical spine exercise.