Spring Festival is approaching, many people busy affairs, coupled with the cold climate, feel uncomfortable cervical spine. In the people who often commit cervical spondylosis, in addition to long hours of work or due to the height of the table and chairs are not suitable for reasons such as, experts remind, the choice and use of pillows is also vital. The human head and neck have several hours a day to close contact with the pillow, if the pillow is not reasonable, or the wrong pillow method, will accelerate the degeneration of the cervical disc, so that the normal physiological curvature of the spine is affected, and thus induced cervical spine diseases such as osteophytes. Pillow position: should be pillowed under the neck Many people believe that the pillow is used to support the head of the sleep aid, sleep when it is placed under the head on the line, so ignore the pillow for the neck support role. As long as careful attention will be found, the street can often see the young people with a hunched back, not only affect the physical appearance, and because the shape of the thorax is not normal, but also easy to affect the breathing and lung capacity, over time on the health of the body has a negative impact. Dr. Wang Yongqing, director of the Department of Orthopedics of the Four Central Hospitals, introduced that this bad standing posture is to some extent also caused by wrong sleeping habits. Hunchback may seem trivial, but it actually adds a lot of trouble to the cervical spine, because the cervical spine with normal physiological curvature and the cervical spine after hunchback have completely different support points and forces. For example, the normal upright cervical spine is flexible and evenly stressed, while the cervical spine of a hunched person will not only feel tired, but also induce cervical spondylosis, and even form barrel-shaped chest, rickets chest and other thoracic deformation diseases that can affect lung capacity. So, the prevention of cervical spondylosis, what is the role of the pillow? How the pillow method is scientific? Wang Yongqing introduced, “pillow, pillow”, in fact, the pillow is not the head, but the cervical spine. Sleeping pillow should be placed under the cervical vertebrae, that is, from the shoulders to start the pad, holding the curvature of the neck, and pad to the back of the head. Do not only pad in the head position and ignore the neck, if the physiological curvature of the neck is not padded up, then the neck muscles, ligaments can not be in a relaxed state of rest, over time, it will lead to the disappearance of the physiological curvature. Pillow height: a fist height is most appropriate Some people with bad cervical spine push to sleep without pillows, that this can restore the physiological bending of the cervical spine. Wang Yongqing reminded, completely not pillow is not desirable, because the pillow can hold the cervical vertebrae of the front bend and cushion the head and neck, so that the neck muscles, ligaments and cervical vertebrae relaxation, otherwise the neck will not get rest. If some people’s cervical physiological curve has disappeared, the cervical and thoracic vertebrae in a straight line, you can sleep in the cervical gap pillow a shorter small pillow. Of course, the pillow is too high is not desirable. Wang Yongqing introduced, the most suitable for the human body pillow height should be “a fist” high, that is, after the pillow pillow solid, just the height of their fist. A good pillow should be in line with the physiological curve of the human body, when people sleep, to protect the cervical spine and can make the body muscles, ligaments and other completely relaxed role. If the pillow is too high, the neck always remain bent forward, the pillow is too short, can not support the head and neck, will cause the neck muscles tense, spinal pressure, sleep a night, the cervical spine can be imagined the harm. Pillow core: the best is buckwheat bark If people can keep 8 hours of sleep every day, then 1/3 of life is spent with the pillow, so the scientific shape of the pillow is very important for cervical health. Wang Yongqing reminded, according to the physiological mechanics of the human neck characteristics, “dumbbell-shaped” pillow is the most suitable for cervical health pillow shape. So called “dumbbell-shaped”, because this pillow is cylindrical, and slightly thicker at both ends, pillow seal (both ends of the seal) diameter of 15cm, slightly thin in the middle, the diameter of about 10-12cm; the total length of the pillow should be the same width as the shoulder, the length of the middle slightly thin part should be the same width as the head. In this way, when lying on your back can sleep in the middle of the pillow, when lying on your side can sleep on both sides of the position, to ensure that in different sleeping positions, the cervical spine can get adequate protection and rest. As for the pillow filler, Wang Yongqing introduced buckwheat hides are the most ideal pillow core, because buckwheat hides are not only breathable, not fragile, not insects, and the shape of buckwheat hides flat round, both relatively stable to support the head and neck, but also can be shaped at will, to better match the physiological bending of the human neck.