How to prevent “low head syndrome”?

  To prevent “low head syndrome”, the following methods can be used.  (l) Neck and shoulder muscle exercise Head lifting, neck extension, neck rotation and chest expansion exercises, 10-20 each time, take time to do once every 2 hours. In addition to sitting properly in class, students can use classroom exercises. Practice 2-3 times a day.  (2) Sacral spine muscle training 20 push-ups in the morning before waking up, do it with your head stretched. Neck, so that the sacrospinous muscle tension, can be a day of low work reserve neck force. Every night before going to bed to do “supine abdominal” exercises, take “five-point” (head and pillow, double elbows and double feet five-point support) practice several times, and then change the “three-point” (remove the double elbow support points) Practice, each time the abdominal extension 10-15 times (can also increase the number of times). At this time the sacrospinous muscle contraction, the head and neck must be tilted back. Can eliminate the head and neck fatigue caused by a day of head down.  (3) look up and far-sighted exercise go out for a walk, consciously look up at the sky; enjoy the paintings and photographs hanging in the room during the work break. This is both a mood of relaxation and pleasure, but also a pleasant neck training to relax the cervical muscles and intervertebral joints, to eliminate eye fatigue.  (4) low pillow and sleep Long-term low head work, study, sleep pillow should be slightly lower, so that the head and neck in a neutral position, so that the neck muscles are more relaxed, get sufficient rest.  (5) Home cervical traction, such as sitting traction, so that the head and neck in a neutral position or slightly posterior position. Traction in supine position, with the neck in the hyperextended position. Traction twice a day, 30-60 minutes a day. Traction weight can be gradually increased to the extent that there is no special discomfort. It helps to correct the small joint disorder of cervical spine, enlarge the intervertebral foramen, relax the spinal cord, and correct the deformity of forward cervical flexion or hunchback.  (6) For those with obvious symptoms, Chinese and Western medicines can be taken appropriately. Such as neck and shoulder pain, take Meloxicam, Sulong or Fenbid; numbness of shoulder and arm with new vitamin B. and Dibazol; dizziness can take Halo-Haining, vitamin B6; sleeplessness at night can use Valium and Librium, etc. The Chinese medicines include Ginseng Recycle Pills, Shu Shu Shu and Blood Tablets, Dou Wu Zai Sheng Tang, Liu Wei Di Huang Tang, Fu Fang Si Wu Tang and Du Zhong San.  On top of the above exercises and treatments, treatments such as massage, physiotherapy and acupuncture in the neck and neck and shoulder can be added to improve the efficacy.  Low head syndrome is a transitional symptom, and the treatment is also transitional symptomatic treatment. There are two possible outcomes: in one case, the symptoms will slowly ease or disappear after strengthening self-care and scientific conditioning; in the other case, the disease will continue to progress, and the special symptoms will become more and more obvious, so that a clear diagnosis of what kind of neck disease can be made. Of course, we should strive for the former.