You are afraid of heat, but the neck is afraid of cold
August 16, 2011 04:29 Source: Dahe Daily
Zhang Shiqing, Department of Tui-Na, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
□ Reporter Lin Hui
Doctors remind
Is there something wrong with the cervical spine? You can also check yourself. You can check the mobility by slowly rotating your head in all directions to see if there is pain in your neck. You can also look for discomfort by lowering your head slightly, starting from the most prominent seventh cervical vertebrae upwards, and pressing on the cervical vertebrae and both sides. If there is pain, or accompanied by dizziness, nausea and other feelings, it means that there is a problem with the cervical spine and you need to see a doctor.
1 Cervical spondylosis is easy to suffer from cold
Why the recent high incidence of cervical spondylosis? Zhang Shiqing, director of the massage department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that under high temperature, the human epidermis vascular expansion, pores open, if you want to be cool, shower with cool water or long-term use of electric fans, air conditioning, will make the pores, sweat glands sharply contracted, it is easy to cause the back of the neck muscle cold, triggering the rapid contraction of blood vessels and neck muscle spasm, neuroedema, inducing cervical spondylosis.
“The human body stays in the air conditioning environment for a long time, which will make the neck and back muscles cold and cause cervical spine pain.” Zhengzhou Jihua Orthopedic Hospital special consultation experts Zhang Zhiguo, deputy chief physician, said that most of the young people who come to the clinic, especially the office family, they keep their heads down or fixed posture work for a long time, so that the cervical vertebrae in a long time in a flexed position or some specific position, because the back of the neck muscle ligament tissue stiffness, resulting in chronic strain injury.
At the same time, young people like to turn the air conditioning temperature low, the muscles of the back of the neck are susceptible to cold induced cervical spondylosis.
2 cervical pain do not do “neck circles”
Recently, a video called “Russian strange head back to 180 degrees” circulated on the Internet: the boy Alexander’s head can rotate 180 degrees, the supermarket female employees on the spot scared silly.
“This is just a special case.” Zhang Shiqing said, in addition to acrobats and other specially trained people or people with abnormal body structure, normal people’s neck left and right rotation can only reach 45 degrees at most, if more than this limit, it will damage the nerve roots and blood vessels in the neck, leading to accidents.
“Common symptoms of cervical spondylosis include stiffness, stiffness and pain in the neck, restricted neck movement, heavy shoulders and back, and hardened muscles, but not all of these manifestations manifest themselves in every patient, and often only some of the symptoms appear.” Zhang Zhiguo said, at this time many people will continuously turn the neck a few turns, or back and forth, shaking the head a few times, thinking that such activities can relax the muscles, in fact, these actions increase the “workload” of the cervical spine, easy to make the friction between the small joints of the cervical vertebrae increased, resulting in small joint dislocation, which leads to acute sprain of the neck. The correct approach is to gently and slowly rotate the neck in all directions to relax the muscles, you can also do neck health exercises such as “rice” exercises, but to no vertigo symptoms as a principle.