Most people’s spine is in a subhealthy state, with a prevalence rate of 75%. Spinal disease is no longer “exclusive” to the elderly, there is a significant trend of youth, and nowadays, primary and secondary school students more scoliosis. Data Eight out of ten people have a subhealthy spine. 70-year-old Mrs. Zhao often felt headaches and leg pain when she was young, but she did not pay attention to it. Since then, Mrs. Zhao has suffered from a herniated lumbar disc, and her back has been slightly hunched along with it. “How big a problem can a herniated lumbar disc be! I didn’t purposely treat it either.” Mrs. Zhao said that she had been hunching her back for 30 years, “her back was bending more and more seriously, and she was restricted from doing household chores, and at the worst time, her back was bent to 63°. Because Mrs. Zhao did not pay attention to the early stage of the disease, the hunchback became serious and her condition worsened. The incidence of spinal disease is very high. “The incidence of spondylosis in China is now as high as 75 percent. Almost eight out of ten people have a spine or have been in a subhealthy state.” Zhang Hui said many people wait for the disease to worsen before seeking medical attention, often missing the best time for treatment. “According to our survey, spinal disease is now concentrated in two parts of the cervical and lumbar spine, which is closely related to our way of life and learning.” In general, intervertebral disc degeneration begins at the age of 20, and the degree of degeneration increases with age. Generally, when a normal person reaches about 40 years old, the degree of degeneration is already greater. If there are a variety of bad habits in life, such as long-term lumbar overexertion, incorrect posture and body position, ambulatory and sedentary, long time in a bumpy state, women wearing high heels for a long time, etc., may lead to uneven force on the spine. These long-term repeated wear and tear caused by external forces can increase the degree of disc degeneration. It is understood that among the many causes of cervical and lumbar spine disease, the use of computers and cell phones can be said to be the two “culprits”. This is because when using computers and cell phones, most users bend over with their heads down. Over time, this causes a static injury that eventually leads to damage to the cervical and lumbar spine. Trends Spine disease is becoming younger “Spine disease is no longer limited to the middle-aged and elderly population, young people, and even primary and secondary school students can develop spine problems.” A survey was done, a junior class of 46 students, 39 students have scoliosis, scoliosis rate of up to nearly 85%. Adolescent scoliosis is increasing year by year, with the scoliosis rate at about 20 percent. “I have met many primary school students with scoliosis, only eight or nine years old, but the development of the spine has shown a ‘C’ shape or ‘S’ shape.” According to reports, scoliosis is the number one orthopedic disease in adolescents, and there are currently 10 million adolescents suffering from scoliosis in China. “Scoliosis can affect height, leading to uneven development, and can also affect the cervical spine, with a variety of cervical spine symptoms, and in serious cases, even affect cardiopulmonary function.” “Frequent head tilting, twisting the body to write homework, playing games with the head down for a long time, twisting or sleeping on the stomach, dozing in a car, carrying a schoolbag on one shoulder or a schoolbag that is too heavy …… can lead to scoliosis.” Treatment Breaststroke is most suitable for patients with spinal disease Spinal disease is a chronic disease, Zhang Hui believes that “prevention” is the most critical. People should enhance their knowledge and awareness of spinal health and have regular checkups, as well as form good work and study habits. If suffering from spinal disease, the public should be more careful, “one is to reduce the head; two is to pay attention to keep warm; three is to carry out some morphological functional exercise, such as swimming is one of the good exercise.” Swimming is a kind of exercise suitable for patients with cervical and lumbar spine diseases. “Swimming spine from an upright state to a horizontal state, while the buoyancy of the water can reduce the burden on the spine, which can effectively reduce the pressure within the cervical and lumbar intervertebral discs and small joints of the spine, so that the movement does not excessively increase the load on the spine, thereby reducing the risk of side injuries from exercise.” However, for people with spinal problems, swimming is also a lot of attention. For example, before swimming in the water to do warm-up exercises and stretching exercises, especially to pay attention to lumbar spine stretching, stretching of the lower limbs. Patients with spinal problems should not twist the waist too much before swimming. When participating in swimming, the main purpose should be to stretch the muscles behind the spine, enhance flexibility and coordination. In addition, patients with spondylosis are not suitable for freestyle and butterfly, while breaststroke and backstroke are very beneficial for training the flexibility of the lower limbs and waist, especially the stirrups and backstroke of breaststroke, which is actually the overall coordinated movement of the lower limbs, pelvis and lumbar spine, which is beneficial for the coordination and balance of the waist, pelvis and lower limb joints, and can strengthen the lumbar back muscles. Especially breaststroke in the change of air, to maintain the cervical back extension action often, which is also targeted exercise of the rear muscle group of the neck, beneficial to the rehabilitation of cervical spondylosis patients.