If the cervical vertebra has degenerated and the sleeping posture is poor for a long time, dislocation of the cervical vertebra and muscle injury of the cervical vertebra may occur during sleep. If you are used to sleeping on your stomach, it will also bring pressure to the cervical spine and lower back, damage the cervical ligament tissue and joint capsule, and eventually develop into cervical spondylosis.

Incorrect sleeping posture is one of the causes of spinal fasciitis.

Generally speaking, bad sleeping posture includes: sleeping on the side in the same direction all the time, prone, twisting the waist, sleeping on the side with the pillow too low, sleeping on the sofa in the car for a long time, sleeping on the table and other bad habits.

Long-term bad sleep posture will make the muscles of the shoulder and neck in a state of tension, stimulate the sympathetic nerve to keep it excited, reduce the quality of sleep, and increase the probability of cervical problems. Some diseases, such as myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction, may be caused by poor sleeping posture.

If there is a slight sprain in the cervical spine at work, or if you keep a bad posture for a long time, it will cause chronic damage to the cervical spine. Under the influence of bad sleeping posture at night, the symptoms will be aggravated, and even the whole upper body will feel numb and painful. The compression of the neck will also slow down the blood flow here and make it easier to form a thrombus inside the artery.

Chinese medicine advocates keeping healthy through sleep. Good sleeping posture can not only prevent a variety of spinal problems, but also help solve many diseases. If you don't sleep properly for a long time, many hidden diseases will appear slowly, which will have a great impact on your body.

However, in life, people generally lack the consciousness of keeping a good sleeping position, and the more comfortable they sleep, the better. As a result, I always feel dizzy, backache and exhausted after waking up. In fact, it's all because I didn't sleep well.

The correct sleeping position should be as follows:

When sleeping on your side, move your head and shoulders back a little, keep your knees slightly flexed, and keep your feet together. Even during sleep, keep your muscles relaxed naturally.

Don't stretch your legs too straight when sleeping on your back. Put a pillow on the bent part of the leg to keep a certain radian. If you keep your legs too straight all night, the muscles in all parts of your body will be pulled, and you will be in a state of tension for a long time, and your spine will tend to be straight because of the muscles.

The most unhealthy way to sleep is to sleep on your stomach. When sleeping, the internal organs will be pressed under the body, which is not conducive to normal breathing and cannot keep the neck in a natural state. Sleeping on your stomach will also increase the curvature of the lumbar spine, leading to the compression of the small joints behind the spine. When sleeping on your stomach, you need to twist your neck sideways to make your head tilt to one side, which is easy to cause neck muscle damage. If the shoulder and neck are often sore, it may be that the cervical spine is stretched excessively when turning over at night, which makes the cervical spine "injured".

Some people are used to crossing their hands on their chests when sleeping, which is also a very bad sleeping habit. This will suppress cardiopulmonary function and make it easy to have nightmares.

How to keep the correct sleeping position is a big problem for many people. Because when you sleep at night, your body will unconsciously change its posture. This is the body's self-protection mechanism. When the body is in a certain posture for a long time, it will inevitably cause muscle fatigue. Although there is no consciousness during sleep, the body will turn over automatically. Therefore, for healthy people, there is no need to be too obsessed with which way of sleeping is healthier.

If the sleeping posture at night is very bad, the body can feel poor breathing, cervical compression and other conditions, and usually adjust itself. This is also the mystery of the human body. Therefore, the mattress should not be too soft and the body must turn over.