The spine is the backbone of our body and includes 33 bones divided into 5 regions: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae. There are 24 separate vertebrae: 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, and 5 lumbar. 5 vertebrae are fused to form the sacral vertebrae and 4 vertebrae are fused to form the caudal vertebrae. The spine, of course, consists of bones and the familiar intervertebral discs, which are fibrocartilage structures that connect two vertebrae together. The normal human spine is an “S” shape from the side, and a normal person should stand like the following figure A, with a vertical line of head, neck, chest, waist and hip. Phenomenon: The spine is a whole, the upper and lower get along with each other, the bones and muscles also affect each other, in life I often see people like the above figure B, head tilted forward, hunchback. They often suffer from neck and back pain for years, and when they take cervical spine X-ray, the report often says: the physiological curvature of the cervical spine is straightened or reversed. This body type is what we often call “hunchback”. When they go to the doctor, they are often diagnosed with cervical spondylosis. We have a technical term to describe “upper crossed syndrome”, which is characterized by forward head extension, shrugged shoulders and slightly turned forward (inward) shoulders. Causes: This body type is actually a muscle imbalance caused by the disease: tightening and shortening of the pectoralis minor and upper trapezius muscles, and weakness of the oblique and serratus anterior muscles. In layman’s terms: pulling the spine back and forth balance of the steel cable, one side of the force is too large, one side weak. This phenomenon is mostly caused by years of poor posture, lack of exercise, and adolescent school bags are too heavy, unreasonable design. There are also girls are particularly prone to this phenomenon, because girls puberty chest physiological development, many girls shy inferiority complex, always unconsciously containing chest cover, in the long run formed a cold chest hunchback look. Harm and countermeasures: the harm of this kind of chest hunchback many extremely vulnerable to incurable cervical spondylosis, this cervical spondylosis patients, according to the conventional in the back of the neck and shoulder massage acupuncture, the effect often does not last long, often recurring episodes. The reason for this is that the therapist only sees the contracted trapezius muscle at the back and does not take into account the pectoralis minor muscle at the front. If the patient can be instructed to exercise and consciously stretch the pectoralis minor muscle at the front, the effect will be excellent, while people with a hunched back are prone to heart and lung disease, which I think is the basis for the reality of the Chinese medicine physical theory of heart and lung Yang deficiency. The typical patient of the upper cross syndrome: the star mold, here to share with you to see. What does the film of a patient with upper cross syndrome look like?