The importance of the human spine
The spine, also known as spine and vertebra, is composed of vertebrae and intervertebral discs with special shapes. It is located in the middle of the back, connected to the skull, connected to the ribs in the middle, and the lower end forms the pelvis with the hip bone. From top to bottom, there are 7 cervical vertebrae, 5 thoracic vertebrae 12, 5 lumbar vertebrae, 5 sacrum 1 root (composed of 5 sacrums) and 24 coccyx 1 root (composed of 4 coccyxes) * * * independent vertebrae (adults). A longitudinal spinal canal with a spinal cord is formed in the spine from top to bottom.
The spine is not only an organ that supports your body, buffers the pressure and impact of the body, and protects the internal organs;
Changes in the spine not only cause pain and numbness in the neck and waist; It can also lead to arrhythmia, headache, dizziness, stomachache and diarrhea, hypertension and sexual dysfunction ... At present, there are more than 100 kinds related to the spine.
Once a person's spine is abnormal, there will be many internal organs that seem to have nothing to do with the spine. It involves internal medicine, surgery, neurology, endocrinology, gynecology, pediatric ophthalmology, stomatology and dermatology. Many people have transferred to many hospitals and departments, and the disease has not been fundamentally diagnosed and treated because the cause of spinal diseases has not been solved. Although the clinical cases encountered in clinic have various symptoms, they all have one thing in common: they are all caused by the spine.
Nevertheless, the listed cases still cannot cover all kinds of diseases that may be caused by the spine. I just want you to realize that paying attention to the spine has been.
The normal shape of the spine, the process from crawling to upright walking, is influenced by the coordination, shock absorption and degeneration of the sun, the moon, the stars, the earth's gravity, its own gravity and the intervertebral disc, forming four physiological curvatures of the human natural spine: cervical lordosis, thoracic lordosis, lumbar lordosis and sacral lordosis. These special "S" shapes can greatly affect your body shape and aura, and more importantly, they are related to your health all your life.
All diseases start from the spine.
Isolated intervertebral disc: There are 26 intervertebral discs after the human spine is upright, and the normal thickness of the intervertebral disc is 1/4 ~ 1/3 of the vertebral body. Intervertebral disc can play the role of shock absorption and rocking chair between vertebrae. After people reach the age of 20, the nutrient supply line of intervertebral disc is cut off, like an island, and gradually degenerates, so that the intervertebral disc is constantly worn, from high to short and thin.
There are two major problems in the spine: the posture of people sitting, lying, sleeping, walking and standing is not physiological, the height of soft bed, soft seat, desk and chair is not matched, and the sleeping pillow is not physiological, especially many people bend their heads for a long time, resulting in straight or reverse curvature of cervical spine. Symptoms are dizziness, headache, myopia, back pillow and shoulder pain. More than half of computer families have straightedge.
Type 2 prevents progressive degeneration of spine.
cobra pose
Practice method: prone, feet open shoulder width, hands on both sides of the chest;
Inhale, hold your hands on the ground, stretch your spine one by one, raise your head and straighten your elbows;
Exhale, the whole spine bends backwards to the maximum; Breathe evenly and keep it;
Inhale, head backwards first; Exhale, bend your elbow and slowly fall back to your upper body. Lie prone and relax.
Exercise effect: accelerate blood circulation around the spine, nourish and soften the spine, and prevent degeneration and diseases of the spine.
Locust type
Exercise method: Sit with knees bent, left leg up, right leg down, right heel on the ground outside the left hip, left foot on the ground outside the right knee, right elbow on the outside of the left knee joint, and left arm around the right waist from behind;
Inhale, stretch the spine upward and stand upright; Exhale and twist completely to the left.
Inhale and return to the center; Exhale and relax your limbs. The opposite is the same.
Exercise effect: relax the spine, relieve fatigue and stiffness on weekdays, make blood flow back to the spine area and nourish the spinal nerves.
Key points of life in preventing spinal degeneration
1 Find a suitable chair. Don't sit on a soft chair. A chair should have a backrest and no armrests. The height of the chair should be the same as the knee joint.
2. The height of the table is necessary. The height of the table should not exceed the armpit stripes.
3. How to watch TV? When watching computer TV, you should look up or look up slightly.
4. Reading is required. You can't read while lying down. When reading a book, you should lift it up to achieve the effect of head-up. Don't put the book on the table and look down.
5. The bed had better be harder. It is best to sleep on a hard bed, and the bedding is best to be hemp or cotton.
6. Sleep with a pillow. When sleeping, put a pillow on your neck instead of a pillow, because the cervical vertebra is suspended when sleeping. After a deep sleep, the ligaments, muscle groups and joint capsules responsible for protecting the cervical spine relax. After a long time, the physiological curvature of the cervical spine will disappear or even bend in the opposite direction, thus causing dislocation of the corresponding cervical joints, which may compress the vertebral artery and spinal nerve, causing dizziness, headache, insomnia and other discomfort.
The correct way to sleep is to lie on your back, put the neck pillow in the depression of the spine, so that your head is slightly suspended and you can't rest on the back of your head. The neck pillow can be made by yourself: the bath towel is tightly rolled into a tube with a diameter of 8.5 cm and a length of 50 cm, and the neck pillow for children is 6 cm in diameter. The size of the neck pillow can be adjusted according to the height and comfort of the neck.
ridge
Massage cervical spinous process
Rhythm: 8×8 beats
Preparation posture: step your right foot to the right, shoulder width, tiptoe forward, put your hands on the spinous process of the first cervical vertebra under the occipital bone, and spread your elbows outward as far as possible.
Start: put your hands together, put your four fingers together under the occipital bone and knead the spinous process horizontally; From suboccipital joint to thoracic vertebra 1, it is divided into four segments, each segment has two 8 beats.
Action essentials: put your hands and fingers on top of each other, press hard, and rub horizontally, and master the strength yourself, so as not to hurt.
Function: Relieve the tension of spinous process muscle and cervical ligament (supraspinous ligament) and prevent cervical ligament from fibrosis and calcification; Promote blood circulation of Du meridian and maintain normal physiological curvature of cervical vertebra.
Standing posture of lumbar spine
Rhythm: 8×8 beats
Preparation posture: step right with your right foot, shoulder width apart, toe forward, and make fists with both hands.
Start: First raise your arm to the upper right, and then swing it to the lower left. At this time, rotate to the left with the thoracic vertebra, lift the left leg and rotate to the right with the lumbar vertebra, and do 4 8 beats; Then lift your arms together to the left and swing them to the lower right. At this point, turn them to the right together with the thoracic vertebrae, and turn their right legs to the left together with the lumbar vertebrae, making four 8 beats.
Action essentials: strong explosive force, arm down, leg up hard.
Function: It is mainly used to prevent and correct intestinal and uterine dysfunction, soreness, numbness, swelling, pain, coldness and weakness of waist, hip, knee and leg caused by joint dislocation between thoracic vertebra 1 1 and lumbar vertebra 5.
Practice method: prone, feet open shoulder width, arms separated from the body about two fists wide;
Inhale, lift your limbs and body off the ground as much as possible, and keep your hands and feet at the same height; Breathe evenly and hold on for a while;
Exhale, fall back to the ground and relax. 4~6 groups can be repeated.
Exercise effect: It is very effective in strengthening the muscles of the back, buttocks and buttocks, and can better protect the spine and prevent its functional degradation.
Tip: It is common that they are also at high risk of spinal injury. I would like to remind you that it is best to get up every once in a while to exercise and relax at work. This can effectively prevent spinal problems.