Cervical spondylosis is a common chronic disease, and the daily bad habits have a certain relationship, this disease in the onset, patients will have neck and back pain, limb numbness, nausea and vomiting and other uncomfortable symptoms, and this disease can not be completely cured.
Some patients with cervical spondylosis in life will not sleep on the pillow in order to alleviate the symptoms of pain, so can this really be cervical spondylosis? What can I do every day to better recover cervical spondylosis?
Can patients with cervical spondylosis not sleep on a pillow?
After suffering from cervical spondylosis, patients must sleep on the pillow at night, otherwise it is easy to cause damage to the cervical spine.
If you do not sleep on the pillow for a long time, the curvature of the spine will change, losing the normal curvature, which is likely to aggravate the damage of the cervical spine.
In addition, if you do not sleep in the pillow after suffering from cervical spondylosis, it will also affect the blood and heart, affecting the quality of sleep, so patients with cervical spondylosis need to sleep on the pillow.
What can be done daily to improve cervical spondylosis?
1. Adjust the height of the pillow
When sleeping, you need to adjust the height of the pillow reasonably, not too high, not too low, generally about 3 cm is the most appropriate, you can also adjust moderately according to your own cervical spine situation, you need to pay special attention not to be too low, otherwise it is easy to cause insufficient blood supply to the brain.
2. Choose the right filling for the pillow
Pillow also need to choose the filler carefully, too soft although it can promote the circulation of blood, but the lack of support, will make the pillow lose its original height, so the filling in the pillow needs to choose moderate acidity, if the height is more difficult to adjust, you can use the towel.
3. Correct the bad position
The occurrence of cervical spondylosis is mainly due to long-term wrong posture, such as holding a posture for a long time when working, or playing with the mobile phone for a long time, which will have a certain impact on the cervical spine. So don't stay still for a long time, it's best to get up and move at intervals.
4. Keep your neck warm
After suffering from cervical spondylosis, you need to protect your neck and avoid cold on the joints, especially when you blow air conditioning in summer, protect the parts of the cervical spine, and avoid the aggravation of cervical spondylosis. If you do not have cervical spondylosis, you should also pay attention to the warmth of the neck, which can also prevent the occurrence of cervical spondylosis to a certain extent.
5. Massage the cervical spine
Usually self-massage is also an effective measure to alleviate cervical spondylosis, can be massaged according to the degree of cervical spondylosis, although it can not completely cure the disease, but can improve the symptoms of discomfort and relieve pain.
However, it should be noted that massage is best to consult a professional doctor to avoid the wrong massage method to aggravate the damage to the cervical spine.
It can be seen that for patients with cervical spondylosis, it is usually necessary to sleep on a pillow, otherwise it is likely to aggravate the condition of cervical spondylosis.
Usually want to improve the discomfort symptoms of cervical spondylosis, you can refer to the above mentioned methods, if the patient's cervical spondylosis attack, there is a very painful situation, you can take some nonsteroidal analgesic drugs to relieve pain, usually you can also carry out some physical therapy, such as traction, massage, massage, etc., these ways can also help alleviate the discomfort symptoms of the cervical spine. For particularly severe cervical spondylosis, surgery is indicated.