”Cervical spondylosis is getting younger and younger, and most of them are urban white-collar workers!” Ten office workers, nine neck pain, all because of “cervical spondylosis” issued a danger signal! Cervical spondylosis is no longer the “patent” of the elderly, elementary school students fallen pillow also suffer from “cervical spondylosis” …… In recent years, similar news seems to be more and more, and The “considerate” business launched a variety of timely prevention and treatment of cervical spondylosis products: titanium collar, universal pillow, cervical spine therapy instrument …… some charlatan doctors also have a “tacit” understanding to provide a variety of free Diagnosis, and from time to time remind white-collar workers: not timely treatment is likely to be paralyzed or even become “invalid”! In this regard, decades of teaching and clinical medical experts reminded that, in fact, urban white-collar long-term buried head pain caused by neck pain, the vast majority of injuries in the muscles and fascia, the disease is not in the cervical spine, not to mention cervical spondylosis. When the symptoms do not need to be overly panic, timely rest and active oil rub, massage, do some exercise, so that the neck muscle to get full relaxation can be alleviated. Do not be fooled by all kinds of exaggerated health care propaganda!
The “white bone” neck pain, most of the injury “tendon” does not hurt the bone
Experts warn: beware of all kinds of cervical spondylosis prevention products “fool” people!
(Phenomenon) buried in the hard work of white-collar workers, nine out of ten “neck pain”
”Doctor, I’ve been working too hard lately, my neck is stiff and sore, is it cervical spondylosis?” Nowadays, in orthopedic and acupuncture clinics, doctors often encounter such young white-collar workers who infer that they have cervical spine problems as soon as they open their mouths.
This kind of white collar, backbone, elite called “white bone essence” work is very busy, every day into the office even if not in front of the computer for a few hours, will be buried in the case of hard work; encounter business trips as a “trapeze” or sitting in the car, travel in a hurry. Excessive fatigue of the “white knuckles” will often not have any protection on the drooping head to snooze. Wait until you get home to feel stiff and sore shoulders and neck, a twist of the head “click”, and even dizziness.
”Cervical spondylosis is getting younger and younger, and most of them are urban white-collar workers!” Ten white-collar people, nine “neck pain”, cervical spondylosis send out danger signals …… In recent years, people are no longer unfamiliar with this kind of news, even elementary school students fallen pillow, parents also suspect whether early suffering from cervical spondylosis. Many “considerate” business also timely launch a variety of prevention and treatment of cervical spondylosis products: titanium collar, universal pillow, cervical spine therapy instrument …… some charlatan doctors are very “tacit agreement” to provide up A variety of free diagnosis, and from time to time remind white-collar workers: “not timely treatment is likely to be paralyzed or even become “‘invalid’!” They cited a survey that “the high incidence of cervical spondylosis has dropped from 55 to 39 years old over the past 20 years”, which led to the conclusion that cervical spondylosis has become significantly younger!
(Interpretation) “White bone” neck pain, cervical muscle strain is the cause of the trouble
”Cervical spondylosis is getting younger? This ‘hat’ is too early and too wide!” Liang De, a professor of orthopedics at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who has been engaged in clinical medicine for more than two decades, lamented.
”Most doctors in teaching or clinical practice do not say such things casually. Because, so far, there is no formal epidemiological survey data sufficient to prove it. It’s not very responsible to draw scary conclusions just by making speculations based on some extreme cases!” The director of the hospital’s acupuncture department, Zhuang Lixing, also believes that the majority of young people’s so-called neck pain injury in the cervical muscles and fascia rather than cervical vertebrae, to be precise, should be called cervical and shoulder myofasciitis, not cervical disc and intervertebral joint degeneration resulting in damage to the cervical spinal cord, nerve roots, sympathetic nerves and vertebral arteries, and therefore not cervical spondylosis!
”The definitive diagnosis of cervical and shoulder myofasciitis was made in the 1980s and is indeed more common in young white-collar workers who are used to burying their heads in the sand and severely lacking in exercise.” Zhuang Lixing explained that our cervical spine is surrounded by muscles and ligaments, and young white-collar workers or “low-workers” who maintain a long-term ambulatory posture at work are prone to stiffness in the muscles of their neck, and excessive strain causes dysfunction in the stretching of the muscles, making neck movement impaired, along with numbness, swelling, soreness, pain or heaviness, but The vast majority do not hurt the cervical spine. He suggested that when this symptom occurs, you can rest properly or use the active oil rub, massage, and do some appropriate exercise, in time to let the cervical muscle to get full relaxation, no need to panic from the cervical spondylosis. Of course, if the accumulation of strain into disease, to a certain age of serious strain on the cervical muscle may also be “kidnapped” cervical spine pathological changes, but this quantitative to qualitative changes have a long-term process, in young people is extremely rare, generally to forty, fifty years old or more will really appear.
”Clinically, cervical spondylosis in young people is caused by trauma from various causes.” Leung Tak has just operated on a 21-year-old college student who was sickened by multiple injuries to his cervical spine from long-term sports. Even younger was an 8-year-old girl who injured her cervical spine by improperly practicing gymnastic forward rolls and was found to have significant pathological changes on film. And some young people and even primary and secondary school students due to cold “cervical spondylosis” suspected of “pillow” is actually caused by the neck qi blood, muscle contraction. In the words of Chinese medicine, it hurts “tendons” not bones, and this “tendons”, in fact, is modern medicine refers to the muscles and ligaments.
(Suggestions) strengthen self-care, away from all kinds of cervicogenic diseases
Many high-income young white-collar workers will bring titanium collar, buy a pillow to pick allegedly can prevent cervical spondylosis, including a variety of pain “universal pillow”, recurring symptoms or cervical muscle strain is more serious favor up claiming to be able to cure cervical spondylosis of various therapeutic instruments …… In this regard, Leung Tak The titanium collar is at best a decorative item, and the therapeutic effect of various health pillows and therapeutic instruments is basically not based on science, only the heart and take for granted the majority of the million, really do not need to spend such wasted money!”
”Young white-collar workers want to get rid of neck pain, away from a variety of cervicogenic diseases, in fact, the most realistic approach is to strengthen self-care.” Zhuang Lixing suggested that white-collar workers who are used to working with their heads in the air should consciously remind themselves to lift their chests and heads, even if they can’t completely change this habit for a while, they should also pay attention to ambling up for an hour or so to take a break, shrug their shoulders, raise their heads, do the head “rice exercise”, or cross their hands and pat their shoulders and necks with appropriate strength, so that the shoulder and neck This will help to prevent neck and shoulder myofasciitis or cervical spondylosis that may occur when you get older.
In addition, it is crucial to set aside time each week to exercise your neck muscles and try to avoid some bad habits in your life.
Exercise tips: preferred swimming, badminton, kite flying
swimming: buoyancy in the water reduces the pressure on the neck, and the head is often raised upward during swimming, the neck muscles can be well exercised.
Playing badminton: the head is often backward, and the swinging action can drive the shoulder and neck muscles to be exercised at the same time.
Kite flying: in addition to the need to lift the chest and head, but also often look left and right, which is conducive to the exercise of the muscle tone of the neck, can prevent the degeneration of the cervical spine and the aging of the neck ligaments.
Life tips: pay attention to the neck warmth, do not believe in high pillow
Warmth: when the day is cold wearing high-collared clothes covered with thick quilts is generally not a problem, but in the changing temperature of the winter and spring seasons, some over clothes on the low-collared clothes neck exposed too much of the women easy to keep warm; in addition, the summer is generally thin clothing, in the air-conditioned room, the neck muscles are also prone to poor blood circulation or even stiffness, soreness and cramps due to excessive stimulation of cold air. It is recommended that women who like to wear low-necked clothes or even backless dresses, even in summer, should always have a scarf in the air-conditioned room to keep the neck warm.
Pillow: Although there is no need to superstitiously believe in a variety of functional pillow or even “universal pillow”, but the height of the pillow to pay due attention to, not as the proverbial “high pillow can be worry-free”. Pillow should match the physiological curve of the neck, the general height required for adults about 10-15 cm, too high easily make the cervical spine physiological curvature to change in the opposite direction, long-term use of the same can cause neck strain injury. In addition, the pillow pillow also has a delicate, the correct way is to pillow neck rather than pillow, so as not to let the back of the neck muscle in a long-term tension, resulting in chronic strain injury of the neck and shoulder. No matter what kind of pillow, the more ideal state is to pillow on the back of the neck muscle in a relaxed state.