This statement comes from a book called "McKenzie Therapy", and I was a little confused when I first saw the sentence "Neck pain is a big problem, and at the same time a huge business opportunity".
How can "pain" be a "business opportunity"?
Later, I found out that there was nothing wrong with this sentence!
First of all, neck and back pain is indeed a big problem, because many people exist, and the pain is usually very lingering, and a lot of treatment has been taken, and a lot of medicine has been taken, but it is not good, and many people call it an "incurable disease".
Secondly, it is a business opportunity, how can it be seen?
Pain inevitably goes to the hospital, and when you get to the hospital, you will find the "business opportunities" contained in these pains. The most common prescriptions for these pains are often prescribed by doctors:
- One is to check the prescription, all kinds of instruments and equipment in the hospital, after a check, most of them can't be stopped;
- The other is to prescribe some kinds of medicines to eat, rub, and apply externally, including various painkillers, prescriptions for Chinese patent medicines, Chinese medicines, etc., which cost a lot of money, and many of them take a long time to eat.
- There is also the last one, which is the prescription of physiotherapy, and many people have mixed opinions on this, some feel comfortable to sit and lift, and some feel that doing it is a sin. And physiotherapy is often done for weeks, and thousands of dollars are gone.
In the end, if these prescriptions do not solve the problem, then the doctor may recommend surgery, and when it comes to the cost of surgery, it will cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Not only that, in addition to going to the hospital, many people also prefer to go to physiotherapy massage parlors, private clinics, etc., which are not a small cost.
So now looking back, do you think neck pain is both a big problem and a huge business opportunity?
Is it just to expose such a fact? Of course not, I would say that a large part of this pain is actually avoidable, and if you can learn something about it and apply it to your daily life, then it will greatly reduce the occurrence of neck and back pain.
In fact, it can be summed up in one sentence, "the opposite", which is also the sentence I often say to patients with neck and back pain that I often meet.
First of all, let's understand why our neck and back hurt, a large part of the reason is that we keep our head down and hunched over for a long time, which is beyond the range that our body can tolerate, so the pain occurs.
To use the example of "The Mechanism of Pain" in the book "Mackenzie Therapy":
Mechanical pain occurs when our body is bent at an angle that stretches the ligaments and soft tissues around the joints too much.
In the case of our fingers, slowly bend your fingers back until you feel resistance, if you keep this position, you will only feel a little uncomfortable at first, but over time you may eventually feel pain.
Pain shows that such a posture has taken a toll on us, which is a warning to us from the body. If we maintain this position, or if we continue to pull our fingers back after feeling the resistance, the ligaments and surrounding soft tissues will be torn, and the resulting pain will continue for some time even when our fingers return to their normal state.
And what about our spine? In fact, the same is true, because we bow our heads for a long time, hunched over, and our spine is also causing such chronic damage.
In fact, our spine is not straight, it has a certain physiological curvature, as shown in the figure:
As far as the cervical spine is concerned, some people will find that the report may describe "physiological curvature straightening" when they take an X-ray, which means that the curvature of the cervical spine does not exist now, which is the change caused by our long-term bad posture.
If we want to avoid such changes, we must often "reverse", that is to say, we often bow our heads, then we must find opportunities to raise our heads more, often hunched over, we must find opportunities to straighten our waist, straighten our chest, and maintain the physiological curvature of the spine, so that we can largely avoid the problem of neck and back pain.
In fact, many manual therapy doctors take advantage of this, which can relieve your pain immediately, they usually use some manual massage to relax your tense muscles, and then give you some "wrenching" to restore your spine as much as possible, so that you will be much more comfortable. But why doesn't this comfort last long? Because your living habits have not changed, you have to bury your head in work after you go back, and your problems will come back after a long time.
So why can't we make changes for ourselves in our daily lives?
For example, if you work for a long time with your head down, then you take the time to give yourself a chance to look back
After a long time at the desk, then you should take time to give yourself a chance to stretch and hold your chest high
Bending over for a long time, then you should take the time to give yourself a chance to straighten up
When you come home from work, your neck and back are sore, but don't think that you are too tired from work and need to lie down and rest immediately. That's the body reminding you that you may need to stretch and relax these areas properly. Maybe you can lie on the bed or on a cushion, let our lower body stick to the cushion as closely as possible, support the upper body with our hands and raise the head as much as possible, make a completely opposite state of the spine when we go to work during the day, and let the tired body return to its normal shape.
Many people are worried about their lumbar intervertebral disc problems, the lumbar intervertebral disc is a spacer in the middle of the lumbar spine, when the lumbar spine is active, he wants to be filled with a balloon filled with water, you always bend your waist forward, the intervertebral disc is squeezed backwards, so if you can give yourself a chance to straighten your waist, theoretically it will not be "squeezed back", even if you can't, it can help maintain not to protrude backwards.
I think that if you can understand these simple truths and deal with them positively, then your neck and back pain will definitely be greatly improved.
#疼痛真相研究所#
#头条健康真相##大健康辟谣进行时#