Physical pain is a nightmare for office workers, especially the shoulders, neck and back often feel pain, and even become more and more stiff, which is really unbearable. It turns out that the culprit comes from sedentary and poor sitting posture, such as often hunching over, which makes the muscles in the shoulders and back tense, the blood circulation is not smooth and the pain is difficult to relieve.

Traditional Chinese medicine: it hurts if it doesn't work, and the back pain is aggravated.

Low back pain is not a patent for the elderly. Nowadays, many young office workers are also high-risk groups, mainly because their postures are incorrect after long-term use of 3C products, such as playing computer and sliding mobile phones for too long, which hinders the operation of local meridians and qi and blood, causing slight back pain and severe pain, so that even they have to stoop when walking.

Liao, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, said that the theory of traditional Chinese medicine holds that "obstruction leads to pain", and physical pain is usually caused by obstruction of meridians. It turns out that the whole "bladder meridian" passes through the back. Once the bladder meridian is blocked, it will cause blood stasis and backache. Long-term neglect of bladder meridian may lead to spondylolisthesis, disc herniation, spinal curvature and other diseases.

Shoulder and neck pain caused by obstruction of gallbladder meridian

In addition, shoulder pain will always be connected to the back of the neck, causing neck pain and even headache. Shoulder pain is due to "gallbladder meridian obstruction". Usually it is muscle strain caused by long-term use, or accidental sprain, which leads to qi stagnation, blood stasis and pain. However, severe and recurrent shoulder and neck pain can be classified as "arthralgia syndrome" in traditional Chinese medicine. Arthralgia syndrome is caused by the deficiency of healthy qi in human body, the invasion of external evils such as wind, cold, dampness and heat, the obstruction of meridians and the poor circulation of qi and blood, especially when living in cold and humid places or when the climate changes.

Most people endure shoulder and neck pain and low back pain until the pain is unbearable, or after a busy week, they use the weekend to seek relief from traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine methods for treating shoulder and neck pain include acupuncture, cupping, tendons and collaterals, small needle knife, etc., but the appropriate methods should be selected according to personal physique and disease symptoms.

1 50-year-old female office worker, usually with tight forehead, headache, stiff neck and even backache, went to see a doctor in Chinese medicine and was diagnosed as "trapezius myofascitis" in the shoulder and neck. Liao, a Chinese medicine practitioner, said that some people suffer from fibrosis, hypertrophy, hyperplasia and even calcification due to chronic myofascial inflammation, which further aggravates the problem of shoulder and neck stiffness. Even acupuncture can only temporarily relieve it for more than ten minutes. After evaluation, the patient suggested to release the stiff muscle fascia of the patient's shoulder and neck with a small needle knife, so as to relieve the pain that has plagued him for more than 20 years.

Infrared nursing can be used to relieve shoulder and neck pain.

In addition, shoulder and neck pain can be relieved by hot compress at ordinary times, and the effect of dredging meridians and promoting qi and blood can be achieved by infrared nursing and its warming effect. Infrared is an electromagnetic wave with a wavelength between microwave and visible light, with a wavelength between 760 nanometers (nm) and 1 millimeter (mm).