The latest survey shows that due to long-term chronic strain, the onset age of cervical spondylosis has been advanced from 40 years old to 3 0 years old, which has become a veritable white-collar occupational disease.
What is even more worrying is that the cervical vertebra is connected with the skull and trunk, which is not only the most active part of the spine, but also the most important part of the nerve center, and it is also the only way for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Once it fails, the consequences will be very serious.
It is never too late to mend. Instead of waiting for long-term and complicated treatment after cervical spine injury, it is better to take the initiative and take the initiative to let the cervical spine be carefully cared for by us without any accident.
Maintenance prompt 1 7: 00
Actively adjust the temperature in the morning. The ancients liked to wear long clothes, on the one hand, for etiquette, on the other hand, for health. No matter in winter or summer, a comfortable temperature should be given to the cervical spine. Even for the sake of beauty, prepare a shawl in the office to protect your neck and back. If you catch a cold occasionally, make yourself a bowl of soup for dispelling cold: brown sugar 2 spoon, 7 slices of ginger, decoct in water for 10 minute, and drink 1~2 times to dispel cold.
Health tips 2 10: 00 5-minute cervical gymnastics
Even in a crowded office, you can take good care of your cervical spine. For example, take a break to practice cervical gymnastics: sit up straight, keep still, move one head, bow one's head, look up, turn left, turn right, stretch forward and then retract; Circling clockwise and counterclockwise. Stick to it for 5 minutes at a time, and the movements should be gentle and soft.
Maintenance tips 3 14: 00 Two massage methods
After working all morning, by two o'clock in the afternoon, I may have been exhausted and a little tired. Here are two simple first aid methods:
(1) There are three points on the back of the neck from the bottom of the skull to the upper part of the trunk at Bailao point. When you spare no effort to work, you might as well spend a few minutes massaging these three reaction points to immediately relieve cervical fatigue and relax the whole body.
(2) Put your fingers on the nape of your neck and gently rub the neck back and forth for 50 times. After the neck is burned, you will feel very relaxed and comfortable.
Maintenance tips 4 18: 00 do outdoor sports.
The nutrition of cartilage tissue is not supplied by blood, but exchanged by the change of pressure. If there is no activity, cartilage will be malnourished and lead to degeneration. Increasing outdoor activities is one of the ways to maintain cervical spine. The recommended sports for you are swimming, playing ball and practicing yoga.
Maintenance tips 5: 20: 00 dinner tonify kidney and add points.
As a busy white-collar worker, you may not have enough time to prepare healthy and nutritious breakfast and lunch, so you can eat some food that nourishes bone marrow at dinner. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that walnut, dogwood, rehmannia root, black sesame and bovine bone have the function of tonifying kidney and promoting marrow. These materials can be added to your dinner to strengthen bones and muscles and delay the transformation of kidneys and spine.
Maintenance tips 6 2 1: 00 spread your wings like Dapeng.
When watching TV, you can spread your wings like Dapeng: bend gently 90 degrees, spread your arms like Dapeng, but don't look up. The higher the better, stick to it for 5 minutes. This action can help you increase the toughness of your neck muscles.
Maintenance tips 7 Enjoy Chinese medicine hot compress at 22: 00.
Stir-fry a little fennel and half a catty of salt, put it in a cloth bag and put it behind your neck for 30 minutes. Every day 1 time. It can improve blood circulation in the neck and back and relieve muscle spasm. Be careful not to let the temperature get too high or stay too long.
Maintenance Tips 8 Choose a healthy pillow at 23: 00.
Pillows and beds are also close companions of cervical vertebrae. If the pillow is too high or too low and the mattress is too soft, it will bring trouble to the cervical spine. The width of the pillow should reach the shoulder, and the ingot-shaped health pillow with low middle and high two ends has a good supporting effect on the cervical vertebra, which can make the cervical vertebra get a good rest; For people with poor cervical vertebrae, wooden beds and brown elastic beds are the best choices, and those excessively soft beds are definitely not good for cervical vertebrae. Bad living habits lead to premature aging of cervical spine. The reason why cervical spondylosis will come to us in advance is because our cervical spine will always encounter some injuries intentionally or unintentionally every day, some of which can be avoided, while others have to be faced. What we can do is to know their causes in advance and prevent them in the first place.
NO 1: tangled decoding of strain in traditional Chinese medicine There is no doubt that long-term chronic strain is the main cause of premature cervical spondylosis in young people. There is a saying in Chinese medicine called "five strains of injury", which means that if we maintain a certain state of activity for a long time, it will destroy the balance of the body and eventually damage our health. If you keep your head down for a long time and ignore the rest of the cervical spine, the neck muscles will be overtired, resulting in the body's gravity all pressing on the cervical spine. If you do this for a long time, it may induce cervical spondylosis.
NO2: Cold and dampness attack Chinese medicine decoding Women are naturally afraid of cold, easy to get cold limbs, and especially sensitive to cold climate. Living in a cold environment, loving cold food, wearing too little and overworking are all easy to damage the yang of the human body, making the bones and muscles insufficient and cold and dampness easy to take advantage of. The factors of wind, cold and dampness in the external environment can make neck muscles spasm and small blood vessels contract, leading to blood circulation disorder in soft tissues, and over time, it will cause cervical spondylosis.
NO _ 3: Bad posture TCM decoding The human spine has a unique physiological curve. If you violate the law and keep a posture for a long time, it will eventually lead to physical imbalance, poor blood circulation and damage to bones and muscles. For example, lying down and watching TV for a long time and taking a nap by car are all actions that damage the cervical spine.
NO4: Malnutrition, depression, lack of activity and other factors may lead to physical decline, liver and kidney deficiency, tendon and vein dystrophy. Once the kidney qi is insufficient, the waist and knees are weak, bone calcium is lost and degraded, and then excessive strain or cold and dampness will easily lead to problems in the cervical spine. Several symptoms of cervical spondylosis once there is neck pain and stiff neck, some people are very nervous and worry that they must have cervical spondylosis. In fact, this situation is mostly caused by excessive fatigue of the cervical spine. Change the posture and let the cervical vertebra rest, which can generally relieve itself. In addition to neck pain, cervical spondylosis usually has symptoms such as dizziness, dizziness, chest tightness, nausea, vomiting, numbness of limbs and walking. You can go to the hospital to make a diagnosis by X-ray, MRI and vertebral artery angiography.
Friends who surf the Internet for a long time and often face screen work, to sum up, can you take a quiz to test whether your cervical spine is ok? Flexible, sensitive, strong ... Are these adjectives gradually drifting away from you, and instead, your cervical vertebra is always out of place with you?
1. Maybe it's because you drive a lot. Recently, I often feel weak in my limbs, walking and playing with the wind?
2. How many inexplicable stiff neck incidents happened to you in recent months?
In addition to neck discomfort, I often feel dizzy and flustered. Do you think of heart disease?
After writing the planning plan for tomorrow's meeting, do you find that your whole shoulder is too sore to lift?
5. Neck and back pain. You took time to go to a nearby beauty shop for massage, and the situation improved, but it worsened in a few days.
6. In terms of dressing, you will never fall behind. Do you often show your sexy neck with suspenders in summer and wear low-necked shirts in winter?
7. Your eyesight has dropped again. It's time to change your glasses. And my eyes are particularly tired, I am afraid of seeing the light, and I still love to cry? If you already have some of the above characteristics, then you should be alert to the possibility of cervical spondylosis.
Friends: Cervical spondylosis is a serious problem for modern urbanites. Touch your neck. Is it a little stiff? Look around. Do you feel pain? Be careful, don't let cervical spondylosis find you. Let's be kind to cervical vertebrae and be kind to health!