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Small knowledge of cervical and lumbar health care
1. What is the common sense of life in treating cervical spondylosis?

The most important thing for patients with cervical spondylosis is rest and exercise. Quietly moving is the best health care and rehabilitation method for patients.

Rest for patients with cervical spondylosis and lumbar spondylosis, the most important prevention for patients with cervical spondylosis and lumbar spondylosis is to learn to maintain a correct sitting posture and standing posture. If you can't do this, you can sit for 1-2 hours and do flexion, extension and rotation of your head and upper limbs, which can not only relieve fatigue, but also enhance muscle toughness. If it still doesn't work, get up and exercise, pour a cup of boiling water and chat with colleagues. In short, you can't sit still for a long time, otherwise, your muscles will be very tired and your whole spine will be more tired. Before long, cervical spondylosis will find you.

Patients with cervical and lumbar spondylosis should know how to exercise. Besides relaxing in the office, they can often do an action at home. The whole body is lying on the bed, and the arms are stretched back as far as possible, just like swallows flying. This action can make the back muscles get a good exercise and strengthen the elasticity of muscle tissue. In addition, the most effective way to prevent cervical and lumbar spondylosis is swimming, because when swimming, the head is raised, the neck muscles and lumbar muscles are exercised, and people do not have any burden in the water and will not cause any damage to the intervertebral disc.

2. Common sense of cervical health care

At present, the treatment methods of cervical spondylosis mainly include surgical treatment and non-surgical treatment. Most cervical spondylosis can be treated by non-surgical methods, such as cervical traction, manipulation and medical gymnastics. The following is a set of simple medical gymnastics for patients with cervical spondylosis, which is helpful to improve blood circulation in the neck, promote inflammation regression, relieve muscle spasm, relieve pain and prevent muscle atrophy. 1. Turn left and right: take a standing or sitting position, with your hands akimbo, and turn your head left and right in turn. The action should be slow and big. When turning to the maximum, stop for 3~5 seconds and turn left and right 15~20 times. If you feel dizzy or flustered, stop spinning. Second, flexion and extension: When doing it, take a deep breath. When exhaling, the neck bends forward and the lower jaw clings to the upper edge of the sternal stalk; When inhaling, stretch your neck to the maximum and repeat 10 times. Third, the side is unfolded: the head is unfolded to the left when inhaling, and the head is restored when exhaling. Then the head expands to the right when inhaling, and recovers when exhaling. Repeat 10 times. * * * Neck: Turn * * neck with both hands for 20-30 times, then press "Fengchi point", and then use the first metacarpal surface of both hands to press * * * 30-60 times.

Do the above medical gymnastics 1~2 times a day. Patients with cervical spondylosis must abide by the rules when performing medical gymnastics, and must not do irregular movements of the head and muscles.

3. What little common sense can cure cervical vertebra?

Cervical muscle fatigue, teach you some experience in neck health care and prevention of cervical spondylosis. (1) Improper improvement and adjustment of sleeping posture will not only cause low back pain, but also cause or aggravate cervical spondylosis. Therefore, paying attention to improving and adjusting the stiffness of cervical vertebrae and pillows during sleep can play a preventive and therapeutic role. (2) Correcting and improving bad habits at work * * * Bad work * * not only affects the therapeutic effect, but also is one of the main reasons for the occurrence, development and recurrence of this disease, which must be paid attention to. Through the analysis of different occupations, it is shown that cervical degeneration and long-term flexion of cervical spine or a specific * * * will lead to the increase of intervertebral space internal pressure and cause a series of symptoms. Such as teachers, accountants, weavers, car drivers and so on. Therefore, this kind of staff should correct the bad head and neck regularly or in time, the time interval should not exceed half an hour, and do some neck exercises to make the cervical vertebra move and rest in all directions. And pay attention to changing your bad reading, writing or working posture. (3) Self-traction therapy This is an immediate measure. If you suddenly feel neck pain, or have radiation pain in your shoulders, back and upper limbs, you can cross your hands, raise your head and place it on the occipital neck, then tilt your head back and gradually hold hands in the direction of your head for 5~ 10 second, which can relieve the intervertebral space pressure for 3~4 consecutive times. Its principle is to use both hands to pull upward, so that the intervertebral space of cervical vertebra is opened, so that the nucleus pulposus with kyphosis may retreat, changing the arrangement of cervical joints, thus relieving symptoms. (4) Cervical traction therapy can be carried out with four headbands sold in the market or made by ourselves, and you can sit or lie down. The traction weight is generally 1.5~6 kg, which can be selected according to the situation. If you have time, you can gently pull it for a long time (more than 30 minutes). If time is tight, you can pull it with a heavy object for a short time. Pay attention to the consistency between the neck and the longitudinal axis of the body when pulling, and don't twist, overstretch or overstretch.

When you go to bed at night, put a bottle of hot water on your back and heat the cervical vertebra. The effect will be good.