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Why do you need a pillow for sleeping? Why don't you use a pillow for sleeping on your back

Does cervical vertebra disease sleep not pillow pillow good?

According to the data calculation, one third of the time in one's life is spent in sleep. Only sleeping well can guarantee the quality of work and life of the rest two thirds of the time. However, many patients with cervical spondylosis have many misunderstandings and puzzles about sleep, including whether to use pillows or not. Let's take a look at the introduction of experts on the above issues.

Experts say that without pillow, the head is lower than the heart, which will lead to more blood flowing into the head, affect the blood circulation of the head, fill the blood vessels, pressure on the wall of the tube, wake up feeling dizzy, puffy eyelids, and seriously affect the quality of sleep. Moreover, the head is put up to sleep, and the chest is also raised a little. In this way, the blood of the lower part of the body can flow downstream, which can reduce the burden of the heart.

At the same time, sleeping without pillows can cause cervical injury.

The cervical vertebra is located in the uppermost part of the human spine, which is wrapped in the neck and consists of seven vertebrae. The so-called physiological radian is a smooth, forward facing arc formed by the seven vertebrae. The role of pillow is to maintain this normal physiological curve. If you don't use the pillow for a long time, the cervical spine that should have been bent will straighten, then it will hunch, cause damage to the cervical spine, and affect the health of the whole spine. Therefore, in order to avoid the invasion of cervical spondylosis patients, we must pay attention to choose the appropriate pillow.

So what kind of pillow is suitable for patients with cervical spondylosis?

The pillow is too high. No matter what position you sleep in, you can't keep the normal camber of the cervical vertebra, which will increase the burden of the cervical vertebra and may lead to falling of the pillow. If you have neck ache, headache, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia and other brain neurasthenia, or you feel numbness in your hands and feet when you are half asleep, it may be that your pillow is too high; if the pillow is too low, your head will be congested, which is easy to cause eyelids and face swelling, and the lower jaw will therefore be lifted up, and it is easy to open your mouth to breathe, and snore. If the neck and shoulder ache after waking up, it is because the pillow is too low, do not use the pillow or the pillow is too soft.