The latest survey shows that: due to long-term chronic strain, the onset age of cervical spondylosis has been advanced from 40 to 30 years old, and has become a real white-collar occupational disease. What's more worrying is that the cervical spine bears the head above and the trunk below. It is not only the most active part of the spine, but also the most important part of the nerve center. It is also the only way for the heart and brain vessels. In case of failure, the consequences will be serious.
It's better to strike first and take the initiative to let the cervical vertebra be carefully taken care of without accidents than to wait until the cervical vertebra is injured and then receive long-term complicated treatment.
Maintenance Tips 1: take the initiative to adjust the temperature in the morning
The ancients like to wear long clothes, on the one hand is for etiquette, in fact, on the other hand is also the need of health. No matter in winter or summer, you should give your cervical vertebra a comfortable temperature. Even for the sake of beauty, prepare a shawl in the office to protect your neck and back. Occasionally have cold phenomenon, give yourself a bowl of cold soup: material is brown sugar 2 tbsp, ginger 7 pieces, water fried 10 minutes, drinking 1 ~ 2 times can drive away the cold.
Maintenance Tips 2: 5 minutes of cervical exercises
Even if you are in a crowded office, you can also maintain your cervical spine well. For example, you can take advantage of the work break to practice cervical spine exercises: sit upright, keep the whole body motionless, move with one head, respectively do head down, head up, turn left, turn right, stretch forward and shrink back; circle clockwise and counterclockwise. 5 minutes each time, the movement should be gentle and gentle.
Maintenance Tips 3: two massage methods
After a morning's work, at two o'clock in the afternoon, my neck may have been exhausted and my energy may not be enough
(1) At the back of the neck, from the bottom of the head to the upper part of the trunk, there are three points of Bailao acupoint. In spare no effort to work, might as well take out a few minutes to massage these three reaction points, immediately relieve cervical fatigue, relax the whole body.
(2) Two fingers cross each other, on the back of the neck, back and forth friction neck, the force should be gentle, continuous friction 50 times, neck heat, there will be a very relaxed and comfortable feeling.
Maintenance Tips 4: do outdoor sports
The nutrition of cartilage tissue is not supplied by blood, but by the change of pressure. If the lack of activity, cartilage will encounter malnutrition, leading to degradation, increase outdoor activities is one of the ways to maintain cervical spine, to recommend sports to you are swimming, playing ball, yoga and so on.
Maintenance Tips 5: tonifying kidney for dinner
As a busy white-collar worker, you may not have enough time to prepare healthy and nutritious breakfast and lunch. You can eat some nutritious bone marrow food for dinner. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that walnuts, Cornus officinalis, raw land, black sesame and ox bone have the function of Tonifying the kidney and marrow. These materials can be added to your dinner to strengthen the muscles and bones and delay the degeneration of the kidney and spine.
Tips 6: learn from Mirs
When watching TV, you can learn how Mirs spread their wings: gently bend down to 90 degrees, extend your arms like Mirs flying, but don't lift your head up. The higher you are, the better. Stick to it for 5 minutes. This movement can help you increase the toughness of your cervical muscles.
Maintenance Tips 7: enjoy Chinese medicine hot compress
Stir fry some fennel and half a jin of salt together, put them into a cloth bag and put them on the back of neck for 30 minutes.
Once a day. It can improve blood circulation of neck and back and relieve muscle spasm. Be careful not to let the temperature be too high or too long.
Maintenance Tips 8: choose healthy pillow
Pillow and bed are also intimate partners of cervical vertebrae. Too high or too low pillow and too soft mattress will affect cervical vertebrae. The width of the pillow should reach the shoulder, the middle is low, and the two ends are high. The Yuanbao shaped health pillow has a good supporting effect on the cervical vertebra, which can make the cervical vertebra get a good rest. For people with poor cervical vertebra, the wooden bed and brown bandage bed are the best choice, and the kind of too soft bed is definitely not conducive to the cervical vertebra.