I found it interesting that girls accounted for more than 2/3 of the dozen job applications. My colleague laughed and said that a female chief always makes girls feel close or secure. In any case, I think girls do have a special advantage as doctors, women’s natural attentiveness, patience and love to make people who are suffering from illness and uncertainty will feel a child-like, sister-like or mother-like warmth and trust psychology. But you know, these girls are not easy to put together a master’s or doctoral degree, from the student girl to work as the backbone of the unit or what people call “strong women”, all day long, reading books, research, writing papers, making reports or buried in research which can be less than the boys, or even pay more. Among the pain patients I see, there are more white-collar women than men with cervical spondylosis. It is often said that the cervical spine is the organ of expression, is the charming part of the female, precious necklace hanging in front of the neck, sweet smile of approval, gently shaking his head against, happy laugh up to the sky, or sad head down crying can not be separated from the participation of the cervical spine. The cervical vertebrae are smaller than the lumbar vertebrae, and the coordinated contraction and relaxation of many muscle groups attached around the vertebrae form their body language, if all the muscles are relaxed the body is as soft as mud, and vice versa is as stiff as a corpse. Therefore, the source of cervical spondylosis should be the injury of the neck muscles, cervical spine muscles are attached to the surface of the neck bone at one end while the other end is attached to the head occipital bone, scapula, thoracic vertebrae, rib bone bone or arm bone, any posture is formed by the contraction of certain muscle groups as well as there must be the relaxation of the corresponding muscle groups. The surface and both ends of each muscle are wrapped in tough fascia, and many places where nerves and blood vessels are wrapped in myofascia are medically known as neurovascular sheaths, and tiny nerves called dermal nerves that govern skin sensation penetrate from the fascia. Little girls kick tendons fall or a few hours without looking up reading and playing computer, the myofascia of the injured or overworked neck will occur mild edema oozing blood to stimulate the local dermal nerves, then they will feel a short period of soreness or discomfort in these areas, but rest will improve. In addition to the above-mentioned musculofascia protecting the bones and supplying blood to the bones, which allows the cervical vertebrae to move in all directions from front to back, there are important blood vessels called “vertebral arteries” and “internal carotid arteries” that supply nutrition to the brain from the heart on both sides and in front of the cervical vertebrae. “and the internal carotid artery, as well as a chain of sympathetic nerves, which is dedicated to managing the blood vessels in the upper quarter of the body. Hardworking girls do not rest or treat their muscles after an acute injury, or work with their necks in an incorrect posture for a long time, causing repeated damage to the myofascia of the neck and repeated leakage, which slowly weakens the contraction of the muscles. During this period, they are prone to mild misalignment of the small joints of the cervical spine and cause dermal nerve or small nerve or vascular involvement, will find themselves sore behind the neck or heavy as a stone pressure, often wake up suddenly “pillow” or after a headache or dizziness tinnitus, but at this time after activities, massage rubbing or find some painkillers to eat can often be relieved. When they come to see me for cervical spine X-ray, they will see that the normal shape of the cervical spine has been mildly changed, and if the cervical spine is forcefully tilted backward or forward bending posture X-ray film will also appear cervical instability, that is, to see the vertebrae behind the original smooth connection line between the upper and lower each other appeared curvature fracture, if the advanced MRI technology to check the cervical spine will also find the disc color darkening and to the surrounding The phenomenon of bulging. At this time, they will be given some physical therapy, medication or targeted injections of trioxides and other anti-inflammatory treatment or nerve adjustment treatment to be effective. I have also seen many cervical spine patients who are young girls under 30 years old who have developed serious problems such as numbness and pain in the arms, burning pain in the back of the head or sudden panic attacks and vomiting, and I have taken pictures of their necks to find cervical spine spurs or herniated discs pressing on the nerves or spinal cord. This is the result of severe or prolonged chronic injury and exudation that causes scarring of the muscles or fascia, adhesions between several pieces of myofascia or where the myofascia connects to the bone, and calcification of chronic exudate deposits on the bone surface known as osteophytes and folklore called “bone spurs. These hardened or adhered myofascial or bone spurs can cause various kinds of pain by jamming nearby nerves, for example, jamming the dermal nerve always causes localized soreness or even pins and needles pain in the muscle, jamming the adjacent nerve causes pins and needles pain or burning pain in the specific area innervated by the nerve, jamming the blood vessels causes muscle chills and weakness, and often waking up late at night with pain and needing to get up and move or massage and beat the muscle to feel better. At this time, they need me to perform some injection-type treatment to loosen the muscle scars and fix the herniated discs to release the trapped nerves. In the case of severe bone spurs causing nerve or spinal cord compression, surgical intervention may be required. Although cervical spondylosis is a common disease, do not let cervical spondylosis deteriorate to the point where surgical intervention is required. Women’s cervical muscles are inherently tender and susceptible to trauma, and finding ways to take care of repairing and exercising their neck muscles is a basic lesson in preventing cervical spondylosis and treating cervical spondylosis. The spine of animals is an important central organ connecting the brain and limbs, and the spinal canal behind the spine contains the spinal cord that connects the higher nerves of the brain to the nerves at all levels of the body. The cervical spine is the uppermost section of the spine, commanding the senses and activities of all internal organs and limbs, and is the most important central part of the body other than the brain. The fundamental principle of preventing and controlling cervical spondylosis is to change the bad life that damages the body and to develop good habits of using the neck regularly. Remember that no posture should be maintained for too long, whether it is reading, meeting, attending classes or riding in a car or airplane, do not wait for the neck to be sore and swollen before pounding it. We need to play the delicate characteristics of women, take the initiative to change the posture often, so that the neck muscle can be moderate rest and not overworked edema. Make some plans to study or work before you start ambulating, and arrange some other small interludes such as organizing items, sending out documents, drinking water and washing clothes or going to the bathroom every 40 minutes or so to achieve the purpose of not wasting time but protecting the cervical spine. After a day of struggle girls will sleep at night will be particularly good, when the neck muscles are basically all relaxed, the pillow is an important tool to reshape the cervical spine. Humans are upright spinal animals, in order to accommodate and protect the heart and lungs, intestines and bladder, etc., the spine normally forms a physiological form with neck bend, chest bend and lumbosacral bend. The pillow is too high or too low and too soft, especially do not change the pillow will cause and aggravate the deterioration of cervical spondylosis, too high pillow will force the cervical spine excessive fist bending, damage the lower cervical muscles and joints, do not use the pillow will destroy the cervical spine bending is not conducive to the rest of the upper cervical spine, too soft sponge pillow will also make the cervical spine deformation by injury. 90s, I found that the Guangzhou prevalent “kapok pillow ” is the driver of cervical spondylosis, then I began to persuade my patients to change such kapok pillow. Because this pillow is very soft and lovely when the flutter swells, but the moisture in use makes the cotton wool shrink slowly only a small dropout of cotton seeds, the pillow becomes an empty pillow bag makes people become pillowless and sleep. Ten years ago I also bought seven or eight pillows in a year because of cervical pain, and then one of my orthopedic teachers also found that the “Seahorse” hard sponge cervical health pillow has good traction and automatic repair of cervical instability in the process of switching to many pillows because of their own cervical disease, so I recommended it to patients in the pain department. I was asked to recommend it to my pain patients. I bought a total of three seahorse pillows for myself and my family to use for more than ten years now without replacement, ending my history of changing pillows indiscriminately. A good pillow should have a certain physiological curvilinear and comfortable at the same time will not be deformed, when people sleep after the muscle relaxation pillow will play an automatic traction, adjust the role of cervical small joints. “Switch to a healthy pillow” is the first recommendation in the prescription for my cervical spine patients. Since cervical myofascial problems are the starting cause of cervical spondylosis, I think the most important remedy for cervical spondylosis is active self-exercise of the cervical myofascial muscles. I highly recommend that girls participate in swimming, which is a good exercise for the spine and joints because the buoyancy of the water counteracts the geocentric attraction and reduces the impact of body weight on disc and joint compression. No matter what position people need to crane their necks to let their mouths and noses breathe, this self-protective craning action needs to overcome the earth’s attraction to complete, this process also exercises the neck muscles at the same time. For the general public, I recommend the safest, most effective and simplest exercise method is the “neck muscle static confrontation exercise”. The method is the first chest and abdomen jaw slightly raised, the palms together in the occipital bone protrusion, the arms forward pulling the head forward, while the head pillow backward force against the palm force to maintain the head and neck position is not moving, at this time the neck muscle group because to backward against the forward palm force and contraction, maintain the head palm against the contraction of the neck muscle posture for 20 seconds to 60 seconds, feel the neck tired can relax and rest. Repeat one to three times each time, one to three times a day, I myself feel dizzy when playing computer for a long time neck pain to do a few times the neck muscle exercise will suddenly feel relaxed head and neck. Because the exercise exercises do not have a large change in the head and neck, there will be no worries about aggravating the disc prolapse and inducing neurological or spinal cord lesions. It is suitable for all types of cervical spondylosis without the need for special places or equipment, and many girls say they often do it during recess or while waiting for trains on the subway. This exercise routine has become a regular part of all my pain health education classes, and it is a great way for new students to learn a new practical method and for old students to do another cervical exercise. As the old saying goes, “the body is the capital of the revolution”, I could only enroll a very small number of new colleagues in this class, and it was difficult for a frail girl like Lin Daiyu to do the hard work of a doctor who needed a doctor and nurse to serve her. Some people imaginatively compare the body to the first “1” on the left side of the number string of happiness in life, and other causes are added to the “0” behind it. Girls, to protect the cervical spine first of all to protect your neck muscles, muscle good fascia strong ligaments strong, the intervertebral discs are not easy to protrude, vertebral bones and small joints are not easy to dislocate. May you have a better cervical spine, more energy to sprint society, to become a white-collar elite.