The phrase “rest on your pillow without worries” is from “Strategies of the Warring States. Wei Policy”: “If we serve Qin, then Chu and Han will not dare to move, and if there is no trouble from Chu and Han, then the king will sleep on a high pillow and the country will be free of worries.” Later, people use “high pillow without worry” to describe the meaning of doing everything well prepared, feel at ease, do not have to be afraid! Now it is used as a theoretical basis for high pillow sleep. In fact, from a medical point of view is “high pillow worry”.
The cervical spine is an important part of the human body. The cervical spine is an important part of the human body, is connected to the head and torso of the main traffic channel, which has the spinal cord, nerves to the body to transmit information from the brain, there are blood vessels to the brain to transport nutrients, there are skeletal muscles to keep the head and neck activities. Sleep would have allowed the neck muscles to rest and recover, reducing the pressure on the cervical discs and restoring their elasticity. However, high pillows subject the disc to a wedge-shaped backward pressure, causing the cervical disc to degenerate and protrude backward, compressing and stimulating the cervical nerve. The continuous stretching of the cervical muscles causes strain and produces painful chemicals that stimulate the cervical nerve. In the long run, the physiological anterior curve of the cervical spine disappears and the cervical spine straightens, leading to disc herniation and compression of the vertebral artery. As we all know, lesion or stimulation of the upper cervical nerve can cause headache, which is medically known as “cervicogenic headache” and accounts for about 80% of all headaches; while lesion of the lower cervical nerve can cause shoulder and back and upper limb pain, which is known as “cervicogenic shoulder and back and upper limb pain “The most serious spinal cord cervical spondylosis can also lead to unstable walking, a feeling of stepping on cotton bales, or even paralysis. In addition, for patients who are overly obese or have respiratory sleep apnea syndrome, sleeping with a pillow that is too high will aggravate airway obstruction, aggravate nighttime hypoxia and carbon dioxide accumulation, and the latter is the most common cause of acute heart attacks and cerebrovascular accidents at night. It is recommended that we pay attention to the protection of their necks, sleep with a flat pillow or a pillow suitable for you (6-8cm), never “high pillow without worry”, but should “save for a rainy day”, in about one-third of the time of life In the sleep to give their neck careful care, so as to reduce the trouble of cervicogenic diseases.