Cervical spine pain now also troubles many friends, and the long hours of desk work make the incidence of cervical spondylosis high. If there is a related pain in the cervical spine, how can we tell? How to carry out rehabilitation? What treatments do I need?
Wu Yi, chief physician of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, and Zhu Yulian, chief therapist, will take you to scientific sports rehabilitation.
1. What are the circumstances that suggest that you may have cervical spondylosis?
Now that computers are becoming more and more popular, mobile phones have become part of our daily lives, so in the clinic, we often see young people in their twenties and thirties who come to the clinic with increased neck pain.
Some patients ran to say, the doctor my right hand is particularly numb, or my left hand is particularly numb, or the head is particularly dizzy, I just worked for less than an hour, began to faint, like these situations are very typical of cervical spondylosis.
2. What should I do if cervical spondylosis is found?
First, we first recommend improving living habits, such as when looking at the mobile phone or looking at the computer, be sure to raise the desktop of the computer higher, such as a few books under the computer, the eyes should be directly oriented to the computer screen, when looking at the mobile phone, try to raise the mobile phone higher.
Second, in the early days, it was best to wear a sponge neck brace to hold up the cervical vertebrae.
Third, to go to the hospital to do professional traction, do traction to lengthen the intervertebral foramen, do not compress the nerve, numbness will improve.
Fourth, there are some physical factor treatments, including shock wave therapy, low-frequency, medium-frequency treatment, will play an anti-inflammatory and swelling effect, so that the local inflammatory response is reduced, so that the pain will also be improved, the numbness of the hands will also be improved, and even dizziness will be improved.
3. If cervical spondylosis has not developed,
It's just cervical strain, what should I pay attention to in life?
There are some simple actions that can be a good relief for cervical spine strain.
1. Pull the towel on the back of the neck
Placing the towel on the back of the neck and pulling the towel with both hands can help the muscles at the back of our neck to train and strengthen the muscles.
2. Resistance training
When the head is lowered, the back of the neck muscles are passively stretched, if the time is too long, our muscles are like rubber bands, elasticity will be reduced, at this time we have to pull back muscle elasticity through some resistance training to help muscle elasticity recover or maintain.
3. Improvement of living habits
When you are in front of the computer for an hour or so, you must remember to raise your head a little, or stand up and walk to the pantry, moderate activity, rice character exercise, side bending is also OK, in general, to strengthen this aspect of the activity.
Do not fix the neck in a certain direction all the time, especially the concentration of attention, neck tension, coupled with continuous keyboard operation, shoulder is also tense, then the overall blood return is blocked, so it will cause a local pain and uncomfortable feeling.
Introduction by experts
Wu Yi, Professor, Chief Physician and Doctoral Supervisor, Leader of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Sciences, Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, Director of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Director of the Standardized Training Base for Rehabilitation Medicine Residents and Specialists in Huashan Hospital. Good at: hemiplegia, consciousness disorder, aphasia, swallowing disorder caused by stroke, brain trauma, etc.; Rehabilitation treatment such as paraplegia and fecal dysfunction caused by spinal cord injury. Rehabilitation after cervical spondylosis, lumbar, knee and shoulder pain, sports trauma.
Yulian Zhu, Ph.D., Chief Physical Therapist, Master Supervisor, Deputy Director of Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University. He specializes in the assessment of motor dysfunction caused by various diseases, physical therapy, and early rehabilitation treatment and management of patients with acute and severe diseases and consciousness disorders.