According to statistics, in the car accident that may lead to death, the use of seat belts can make the car occupants to improve the chances of survival by 60%. So what is the role of wearing seat belt in the car? When sitting in a car, how should prevent the spine from being damaged? When driving to wear seat belts, do not wear seat belts harmful, do not doze off in the high-speed vehicle. Do not wear seat belt is harmful It is understood that the general car accident injury and the spine can appear a variety of circumstances, such as muscle soft tissue injury, transverse process fracture, spine fracture, etc., which is relatively mild, serious can cause vertebral fracture, dislocation, spinal cord injury, and even can cause spinal cord injury plane below the loss of limb function, which is said to be paraplegia. From the mechanical force, if you wear a seat belt, then your body is fixed, when you see a car collision, your limbs will instinctively protect the front chest and head, and the airbag pop-up will also protect your body to a certain extent. Do not wear seat belts in a car accident, most likely with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield and other items of the second impact caused by injury, if thrown out of the car is a higher risk factor, easy to cause serious injury or even life-threatening. Do not move patients at the scene of a car accident “A significant proportion of patients with spinal injuries are aggravated by damage caused by improper handling.” Once the spine is injured, the damage caused by improper handling can be catastrophic. He cited a familiar example. in July 1998, Mulberry landed on her head during warm-up training before a gymnastics bar competition and suffered a serious cervical misalignment. At that time, professional emergency personnel quickly fixed her and sent her to the hospital for treatment. If the handling was not done properly, Sanglan’s life might not have been saved. When a car accident or other accident occurs, if you suspect that there may be spinal injury, do not rashly move the injured person, such practices are likely to aggravate the spinal injury caused by irreversible consequences, the correct approach is to protect the scene, waiting for the rescue of professionals. In addition, the basic principle of spinal cord injury treatment is to be early. The first six hours after the accident injury is the golden period, if more than this time, the spinal cord will be irreversible damage, along with degeneration, necrosis. The earlier the rescue, the greater the hope of recovery. How to prevent injury to the spine when riding in a car? 1, driving in a car must be wearing seat belts; 2, try to take an inflatable neck brace when sitting in the car, and also try not to sleep in the car, because when people are awake, the body has a self-protection role. 3, pay attention to safety when driving, do not exceed the speed limit, comply with traffic rules. Try not to doze off in the car at high speed, even if you sit in the back and put on the seat belt. If you feel severe pain in your neck after emergency braking, you should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible. Professor Lin Hongsheng finally stressed. Correctly wear the seat belt, should pay attention to three aspects: 1, after sitting on the seat, the public should adjust the height of the seat belt. If too high, emergency tighten easily to strangle the neck, may cause unnecessary injury; If too low, may not be able to completely restrict the body forward; 2, in order to make the lumbar seat belt fastening, in the buckle end down to pull the lumbar seat belt at the same time, to pull up the shoulder seat belt; 3, pregnant women driving vehicles wearing seat belt, seat belt belt belt to pass through the crotch bone, position as low as possible, absolutely can not be Belt directly above the belly, in case the vehicle in the emergency braking, belt injury and fetus in the abdomen.