Cervicogenic headaches caused by prolonged desk work

Cervicogenic headaches, as the name suggests, are headaches caused by the neck. In the pain departments of some hospitals, the majority of patients diagnosed with cervicogenic headaches are long-term ambulatory workers. In addition to headache, some people have cervical spine strain, muscle tension, neuropathy, and finally triggered a series of symptoms such as upper extremity, elbow, shoulder, back pain and numbness. Cervicogenic headache occurs in people aged 30 to 50 years old, and its prevalence accounts for about 17.8% of the headache population, with the majority of patients being women. Early manifestation of one side of the neck and shoulder, occipital, behind the ear, the lower part of the ear pain and discomfort, and can be spread to the head and upper arm, and later gradually turned into chronic pain, taking analgesics is also difficult to relieve. In addition, cervical vertebrae and disc degenerative changes, neck muscle tissue strain, cumulative fatigue and long-term mental stress can also lead to cervicogenic headache. At present, commonly used treatments include oral drug therapy, local muscle therapy, cervical god block therapy, infrared phototherapy and radiofrequency therapy. However, doctors pointed out that, in addition to these treatments, the most important thing is to make adjustments in life and work. To prevent cervicogenic headache, the main thing is to avoid prolonged work, every half an hour or an hour to get up and do some upper limb stretching exercise, relax the neck muscles or a moderate amount of whole body exercise, moving muscles and bones, improve blood circulation. Sleeping at night to low pillow, shoulder pillow, can not use soft pillow, these methods can reduce the occurrence of cervicogenic headache.