Kang Xiuzhunei (president of Takeuchi Hospital in Japan) Patients with radicular cervical spondylosis and cervical disc herniation should pay special attention to several points in daily life. One is the way to get things. People who have problems such as cervical spondylotic radiculopathy will mostly have symptoms of unilateral arm paralysis or pain. Please use asymptomatic hands when carrying things alone, and use normal shoulders when using side backpacks. The basic point is not to extract anything too heavy when your hands are sore. The weight of the object will pull the injured nerve and aggravate the pain or paralysis of the arm. Avoid letting them wash their hair or treat their teeth during symptoms, or at least when they are seriously unwell. All these things should be done in a posture that makes you lie on your back and tilt your neck, which will easily lead to the deterioration of symptoms. If you must go, ask the other person to hold your head higher. In addition, if patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy suddenly feel arm paralysis or pain in their lives, it will be much easier to lift the symptomatic arm over their shoulders. If you are standing at that time, you can gently bend the symptomatic elbow, and then lift or put your hand on your head. When sitting, if there is an object or table on which you can put your arms, try to put your arms higher. It's the same when lying down. You can bend your elbow gently and put it on your head. At this time, as long as the headrest is held under the elbow or arm, it will be easier to fall asleep. What has been introduced above is a life prescription that can effectively improve neck pain. Readers can try to practice from projects that are suitable for their own situation and easy to realize. Kang Xiuzhunei (president of Takeuchi Hospital in Japan) Patients with radicular cervical spondylosis and cervical disc herniation should pay special attention to several points in daily life. One is the way to take things. People who have problems such as cervical spondylotic radiculopathy will mostly have symptoms of unilateral arm paralysis or pain. Please use asymptomatic hands when carrying things alone, and use normal shoulders when using side backpacks. The basic point is not to extract anything too heavy when your hands are sore. The weight of the object will pull the injured nerve and aggravate the pain or paralysis of the arm. Avoid letting them wash their hair or treat their teeth during symptoms, or at least when they are seriously unwell. All these things should be done in a posture that makes you lie on your back and tilt your neck, which will easily lead to the deterioration of symptoms. If you must go, ask the other person to hold your head higher. In addition, if patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy suddenly feel arm paralysis or pain in their lives, it will be much easier to lift the symptomatic arm over their shoulders. If you are standing at that time, you can gently bend the symptomatic elbow, and then lift or put your hand on your head. When sitting, if there is an object or table on which you can put your arms, try to put your arms higher. It's the same when lying down. You can bend your elbow gently and put it on your head. At this time, as long as the headrest is held under the elbow or arm, it will be easier to fall asleep. What has been introduced above is a life prescription that can effectively improve neck pain. Readers can try to practice from projects that are suitable for their own situation and easy to realize. The effect of muscle training and stretching in "stretching exercise of circular muscle" is doubled. This is a gymnastics in which hands are raised above the head, arms are in a "0" shape, and shoulder blades are clamped and pressed down. Clamping the left and right shoulder blades can exercise the rhomboid muscles of the back. I call it "round muscle stretching exercise". Let me briefly explain the operation mechanism of this gymnastics. Trapezius muscle connects to clavicle and scapula from the bottom of skull through shoulder and back, and is divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower. This gymnastics is to exercise the trapezius muscle. In addition, it can relax the upper trapezius and levator scapulae from the neck to the shoulder, and relax the pectoral muscles. Most people with shoulder and neck pain, due to improper exertion, will shorten the upper trapezius muscle and levator scapulae, and lift the scapula to the head. Exercising the trapezius muscle through the stretching exercise of the round muscle can pull down the scapula raised by shoulder pain and relieve discomfort. Here, please recall the nervousness I mentioned on page 65 of the first chapter. It is conceivable that after stretching these two muscles, the tension will be reduced and the shoulder and neck pain will be improved. The force of the lower trapezius muscle will also have another effect: due to the clamping of the scapula on the back, the tension of the pectoral muscle in front of the body can be relaxed, so that the scapula and the whole shoulder can be easily pulled back. The lower trapezius muscle in the back and the pectoral muscle in the front will pull the scapula like a tug of war, so that it is no longer fixed in the wrong position, so it can bring the function of correcting posture. The way to improve shoulder and neck pain is to exercise trapezius muscle alone, which can treat shoulder and neck pain symptoms and adjust posture. It is a gymnastics that kills two birds with one stone. Its practice is very simple. Whether you are standing or sitting, please try to do it during work breaks or while watching TV. The practice of circular muscle stretching exercises is to form a big shape with your hands on your head. You can hold the other hand with one hand or cross your fingers. Keep your arms in a 0-shape, and clamp the left and right shoulder blades in the direction of the spine. It's easier to hold your chest out and bend your elbows back a little. The clamped scapula is pressed down directly. Be careful not to lower your arm too much and press down on your shoulder blades at the same time. Hold posture ③ for ten to fifteen seconds, then relax, return to posture ① and start all over again. Repeat the above actions three times as a group, and you can do more groups according to your physical condition. Point! Please pay attention to keep the raised arm in a 0-shaped state. If the elbow drops too low, it will change the muscles that make the force, and the effect will be discounted. If your shoulders are stiff and you can't hold your arms high or shake hands, please raise your elbows as high as possible. This article is excerpted from Shoulder and Neck Self-Therapy of Three Generations of Japanese Famous Doctors: One minute a day, the cervical vertebrae will be opened immediately, and all diseases will not leave their ancestral home/Kangxiu Takeuchi (Dean of Takeuchi Hospital, Japan)/Dialect culture.