Popular Science Micro-Classroom - How to Correctly Understand the "Spine"

You find this spine of ours interesting. Our spine is composed of dozens of vertebral bodies, the middle of this vertebral body is soft tissue, it can not be just hard tissue, it has lumbar discs, cervical discs, thoracic discs, these discs are like the middle of the chair connection or spring, it can make our spine anterior, posterior or left and right activity, otherwise if it is hard bones, then it can not be moved. Like ankylosing spondylitis, that is, soft tissue becomes hard tissue.

So is it easy for our spine to cause damage when we overexerte? Excessive exercise can cause bone damage, which we call fractures, or soft tissue damage, which we call disc damage. Of course, there are other soft tissues, such as we connect bones, in fact, there are ligament tissues, and our ligament tissue is also very susceptible to strain or bumping. At this time, there will be pain and swelling in the local area, and you need to go to the doctor as soon as possible, and the doctor may take a picture of you, take a picture of MRI, and see if there is a corresponding injury to give you the best treatment.

Of course, we all know that the spine is roughly divided into several segments, such as our softest part, the part under the skull is called the cervical vertebrae. The cervical spine is the closest link that we can say to be active in this area, and you see that the thin neck has a large head on it, so it is actually particularly prone to cervical spine injuries. We have a very typical example, that is, there is a doctor, he especially loves skiing, but because his level is getting higher and higher, skiing faster and faster, so there was a head impact injury when he skied, this time the head is hard, relatively speaking, the cervical spine has become more fragile, so there was a high paraplegia, he was lucky, got the fastest and most timely treatment, and soon his paraplegia symptoms disappeared, but since then, his neck has also left uncomfortable symptoms. Therefore, when skiing, we must bring protective gear, and pay special attention to preventing damage to the cervical spine. Because of the injury of the cervical spine, we all know that many athletes have caused lifelong paraplegia due to cervical spine injury on the field, in fact, this has a very great impact on everyone. Therefore, the protection of the cervical spine must be paid special attention to.

At the same time, give everyone some cervical spine science. As we all know, as the pace of our lives becomes faster and faster, many people have symptoms of cervical spondylosis, and what is the most typical symptom of cervical spondylosis? Called neck and shoulder pain, that is, neck to shoulder pain, and even some people will string a tendon to the hand to produce pain and numbness, this pain and numbness is very uncomfortable, many people can not bear. Patients often take this bottle and constantly knock on his sore and numb areas, but that may not be relieved. If you can get relief smoothly in a very short period of time, then you can not go to the doctor for a while, but if it is aggravated and cannot be relieved, it will often cause more serious symptoms in the lower limbs, so you should be reminded to see a doctor. When the early symptoms are not serious, can we do something preventive health care action? In fact, it is okay to teach everyone the simplest action. Everyone knows what happens when we read and study, and we put our heads down, right? That is a very simple truth, we can not always bow our heads, so we often have to look up, everyone finds that looking up is in line with our exercise? Flying kites, playing badminton, and shooting are all good preventive actions for correcting the cervical spine for a long time.

What if some people say, "I don't love sports" or "I don't have the conditions to exercise?" Tell us some ways to do health care in the office. The simplest way is that we cross our hands, put them behind our heads, and then use our heads to push back, maintain a posture until fatigue, and then rest for half a minute, that is, about 30 seconds of time, don't be long, this is a scientific basis, do 3-4 groups in the morning, do 3-4 groups in the afternoon, you can keep your cervical spine in a good state, this is a little trick I teach you.

Of course, for our spine, there is also an important joint part, that is, our lumbar spine, many people can bend the lumbar spine to a large extent, many people can reach the floor with both hands, at this time the lumbar spine can be imagined, but also under a lot of pressure. Especially if we say sometimes we bend down to move things, right? Often people will feel that I move, the waist suddenly stuck, this time is the lumbar muscle strain or the noose of the small joint, we need to lift this noose, that way is to find a professional doctor to help you massage and reset. But remind everyone must find a special professional doctor, such as sports medicine rehabilitation doctor, or rehabilitation doctor, or physiotherapy doctor, and must have formal qualifications, if it is on the street, we must be cautious, otherwise it may even cause aggravation of the disease.

So if there is a problem with our lumbar spine, is there a way to take care of it? There are also, and quite simply, to tell you about the two most commonly used methods. The first one is that like the cervical spine just now, the lumbar spine is often bent forward, so what to do? Then I often bend back after work. For example, we have a chair in our office, so what do we do with this chair? Do the lumbar spine backwards, that is, lift our legs, lift our legs up, generally until tired, and then put down, but also in the middle of the rest for about thirty seconds, we do a few more sets, so that our lumbar spine has a good protective effect. What else is there to do? Relatively complex, that is, we need to be at home or on the sports field. We're going to lie on the ground, with our hands behind our backs, and then we're going to get up in two directions. On the Internet, you can find out that this is called - Xiao Yan Fei, flying like a small swallow. That is, the head is also upturned, the feet are also upturned, and if you often tilt it, you can maintain the exercise of our lumbar spine muscles and enhance the strength of our waist muscles, which will reduce the chance of low back pain.