In recent years, various osteoarticular diseases have begun to appear more and more in the middle-aged and elderly population, and the Spring Festival is coming, many people do not pay attention to rest, excessive fatigue led to a high incidence of cervical and lumbar spine diseases. In these people, dizziness, neck pain, upper limb tingling, low back pain and lower limb numbness and other symptoms are often the main problems that plague everyone. Have you also deeply experienced it, have you ever thought about what causes these symptoms, and how can you get rid of cervical and lumbar spine diseases? After reading the following article, I believe you will know what to do.
The cervical spine is often a part prone to problems, and it used to appear in adolescents, who often have neck and shoulder pain when working and studying, which is a common occurrence of cervical spondylosis. However, in recent years, through clinical discoveries, the elderly population has also become a victim of cervical spondylosis, the following are a few common habits of hurting the cervical spine, see if you have been recruited.
Are you a mobile phone family? Now smart phones have become a must-have in people's lives, the machine is not separated, whether it is teenagers or middle-aged and elderly, whether at home, in the unit, in the park, on the road, on the subway, in the shopping mall, in the restaurant, men and women, young and old are holding a mobile phone, dialing their fingers, staring intently at the small mobile phone screen, carefully observing the movements of these people, including chest hunchback, cervical vertebrae stretched forward, like a big question mark. This posture will cause the cervical spine to be excessively flexed forward, causing the cervical ligaments to be in a tight state, and the cervical spine that was originally normally curved is passively straightened, so that the muscles around both sides of the neck are in tension. In this position for a long time, the muscles around the cervical spine will lose their elasticity, the ligaments will harden, the edges of the vertebral body will increase due to long-term stimulation, the range of motion between the small joints will decrease, and the cervical spine will become stiff. These changes can directly cause stiffness and pain in the cervical spine, and even tingling in the arms.
Does the Spring Festival holiday make playing mahjong, playing mobile phones and computers occupy too much time in your life? When playing mahjong and playing computers, being in a low-headed posture for a long time and not moving the cervical spine will cause poor blood circulation in the cervical spine, soft tissue ischemia, premature degeneration of the cervical spine, and the result of degeneration is the appearance of symptoms such as flexion and extension dysfunction and cervical pain. Due to the fatigue of the lumbar muscles due to the long period of sitting, the lumbar spine is under greater pressure than ever before, and these pressures are often concentrated on the lumbar disc of the lumbar spine. Lumbar disc is an important tissue of our lumbar spine responsible for buffering pressure, and the pressure of lumbar disc in ordinary life can be rested and relieved by lumbar movement and position changes. When sitting for a long time, the pressure of the lumbar intervertebral disc can not be relieved, and over time, the pressure in the intervertebral disc will increase, accumulate to a certain extent, break through the restraint of the surrounding fiber ring, and cause the lumbar intervertebral disc to protrude, thereby compressing the surrounding nerve roots, causing nerve root edema and inflammation, and the phenomenon of low back pain and leg numbness. Therefore, during the festival, we must not sit in a chair for a long time, ensure proper activity and increase outdoor exercise, and there will be no cervical and lumbar spine problems.
After a year of work, many people will definitely use this Spring Festival holiday to have good leisure and entertainment, and family and friends to celebrate the Spring Festival together, we are here to remind everyone to choose healthy entertainment activities, we must pay attention to not excessive fatigue, pay attention to the combination of work and leisure, more to the outdoor to participate in some healthy exercise, will let you stay away from cervical and lumbar spine diseases during the festival, maintain a healthy body, spend a beautiful and peaceful Spring Festival.
【Experts of this issue】
Han Tao, Deputy Director of the Department of Soft Injury, Deputy Chief Physician, Shenyang Orthopaedic Hospital, graduate student of Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedic Injury. He is a member of the Liaoning Rheumatology and Immunology Society, the deputy secretary-general of the Liaoning Traditional Chinese Medicine Soft Injury Society, and a member of the medical damage identification expert database of the Shenyang Medical Association. He specializes in the treatment of lumbar disc herniation, cervical spondylosis, knee arthritis, gouty arthritis and other diseases, and is good at color ultrasound interventional therapy.