Now most white-collar workers often face computer office and often sit for a whole day. So they often suffer from cervical spondylosis, but they usually don't know how to treat cervical spondylosis. What should we do if we suffer from cervical spondylosis? How should we treat cervical spondylosis? Now let Xiaobian introduce it to you.
How does office worker cervical spondylosis do
Cervical spondylosis, also known as cervical syndrome, is a clinical syndrome with a series of dysfunction due to the compression of cervical spinal cord, nerve root or vertebral artery due to long-term strain of cervical spine, hyperosteogeny, or prolapse of intervertebral disc and thickening of ligament. Cervical spondylosis has almost become a common disease among office people. The so-called 'running water does not rot, and the hinge does not bark', because office people always sit for a long time and keep a posture unchanged, it is easy to cause various cervical problems due to muscle deadlock and fatigue. But people often ignore its existence. They often pay attention to it when the symptoms are serious and affect their life.
So how can we identify the 'problem signal' sent by the cervical spine in life? Doctors believe that you should be vigilant when your body shows the following signals:
1. Sometimes the head, neck, shoulders, back or arms feel sore, the neck and neck feel stiff, and the twisting activity is limited.
2. There is weakness of lower limbs, unstable walking, numbness of both feet, and the feeling of stepping on cotton when walking.
3. Neck pain and neck stiffness. Radiation pain or numbness of upper limbs, sometimes the symptoms are obviously related to the relief and the position and posture of their neck; Upper limbs feel heavy, grip strength decreases, and sometimes holding objects fall.
4. Paroxysmal vertigo, diplopia with nystagmus. Sometimes accompanied by nausea, vomiting, tinnitus or hearing loss, these symptoms are related to the change of neck position. Occasionally, there are limb numbness and abnormal sensation.
5. Dizziness, headache, poor sleep, memory loss, difficulty concentrating.
Defending the 'pillar of life' starts from the office
For all diseases, prevention is better than treatment. If we plan ahead, do a good job in prevention and don't give the chance of disease attack, our body machines will naturally keep running normally. For cervical spondylosis, office people had better start with prevention. When working in the office, they should pay special attention to ensure good sitting posture is the premise of preventing cervical spondylosis.
The doctor said that when working, you must adjust the height of the chair to make it consistent with your height and sight distance; Work and rest should be combined. Don't continue to work and surf the Internet when your neck is too tired; Don't sit too long. Generally, you should get up and move or change your posture after an hour; If the eyes feel tired, it is recommended to do eye exercises and other eye massage, because eye fatigue will also lead to neck fatigue; In addition, you can often do some small head movements in the office, such as bending the neck forward, extending back or tilting to the left and right. You can also do 'looking back at the moon' rotation to the side and rear, or write 'meters' and draw circles with your head.
The sleeping position is also very important. Correct the improper sleeping position and choose the pillow with appropriate height. The best pillow is a hard pillow of about 10cm, which can play a good supporting role for the head and fully relax the neck muscles; After going home, we should strengthen exercise and improve our physical quality. Prevent the neck from wind and cold, prevent the injury of cervical vertebra, and make preparations before exercise.
In addition, active treatment of cervical trauma, infection, tuberculosis, lymphadenitis and discitis is also an important part of the prevention of cervical spondylosis.
It is said that the office family is only 1cm away from cervical spondylosis, which is an appropriate metaphor for the current health status of professionals. Due to the long-term computer work and the lack of daily protection and exercise of cervical spine, cervical spondylosis quietly climbed onto the shoulders of office people.
1. Medication
Painkillers, sedatives and vitamins (such as B1 and B12) can be selectively used to alleviate symptoms.
2. Exercise therapy
When the symptoms of various types of cervical spondylosis are basically relieved or in a chronic state, medical gymnastics can be started to further eliminate the symptoms and consolidate the curative effect. During the acute attack of symptoms, it is appropriate to rest locally and not increase exercise stimulation. When there are obvious or progressive symptoms of spinal cord compression, exercise should be contraindicated, especially cervical spine supine movement. When cervical spondylosis of vertebral artery type, the rotation of the neck should be gentle and slow, and the range should be properly controlled.
3. Traction treatment
'traction 'was one of the preferred methods for the treatment of cervical spondylosis in the past, but in recent years, it has been found that many patients with cervical spondylosis, especially those who use' traction 'for a long time, not only do the cervical spondylosis not reduce, but aggravate.
Traction can not promote the recovery of cervical physiological curvature. On the contrary, traction straightens the cervical spine, but weakens the cervical physiological curvature. Therefore, traction therapy should be used with caution for cervical spondylosis.
4. Manual massage therapy
It is an effective treatment for cervical spondylosis. Its therapeutic effect is to relieve the tension and spasm of neck shoulder muscle group, restore cervical spine activity, and loosen nerve root and soft tissue adhesion to alleviate symptoms. Gravity massage and reduction are generally prohibited for cervical spondylotic myelopathy, otherwise it is easy to aggravate symptoms and even lead to paraplegia. Surgical treatment is generally recommended even if the early symptoms are not obvious.
5. Physiotherapy
In the treatment of cervical spondylosis, physiotherapy can play a variety of roles. It is generally believed that ion penetration, ultrasound, ultraviolet or intermittent current are feasible in the acute stage; After pain relief, ultrasonic, iodine ion penetration, induction electricity or other hyperthermia were used.
6. Warm compress
This treatment can improve blood circulation, relieve muscle spasm, eliminate swelling to reduce symptoms, and help stabilize the affected vertebra after manual treatment. This method can be applied locally with hot towel and hot water bag. When the pain symptoms of patients in acute stage are serious, it should not be treated with warm and hot compress.
7. Patients with severe nerve root or spinal cord compression can be treated surgically if necessary
Health care therapy of cervical spondylosis in office workers
I believe many urban white-collar workers have a profound experience, and their spine often feels pain. Hot compress therapy improves pain. Office workers are a high incidence group of cervical spondylosis. Sitting in office for a long time every day leads to a high incidence of cervical spondylosis, which is very unfavorable for the health preservation work of office workers. So how should we prevent and treat cervical spondylosis? Here are seven tips for you.
1. Change sitting posture
White collar workers need to lower their heads and sit on their desks for a long time due to work reasons, so that the cervical spine is in flexion position or some specific body position for a long time, so that the cervical muscles are in a non coordinated stress state for a long time, and the posterior cervical muscles and ligaments are easy to be pulled and strained, resulting in cervical spondylosis.
Many experts have warned that you can't sit all the time, which is very bad for the spine.
Orthopaedic experts suggest that a fixed posture cannot be maintained for more than an hour. After an hour, you should move your neck and shoulders and do health exercises. If you lower your head for too long, it will affect the health of the cervical spine.
The sitting posture of white-collar workers in the office is also strange. Many people just want to be comfortable regardless of whether the sitting posture is correct or not, which is also one of the culprits of cervical spondylosis.
The correct sitting posture should be to keep the neck upright so that the head can be strongly supported, the shoulders sag naturally, and the elbows bend 90 degrees; The waist and back are straight, and the upper body is 90 degrees to the thighs; Keep your thighs at 90 degrees to your lower legs and keep your feet on the ground.
2. Choose the right pillow
Sleep is a problem that every office worker must pay attention to. Sleep quality determines the health status of office workers.
In a healthy lifestyle, sleep should be allocated at least one-third of the time a day, so how you sleep is very important.
For how you sleep, the pillow is also a very important factor. If you choose a bad pillow, it will not only aggravate cervical spondylosis, but also affect our health.
How do we choose the right pillow
Orthopaedic experts say that the physiological curve of normal cervical spine is protrusion. When lying on your back, if the pillow is too low and the head and neck are too tilted back, the protrusion curvature will increase. It is not only easy to fatigue due to excessive tension, but also can cause chronic injury.
However, if the pillow is too high and the head and neck are excessively bent forward, it will not only easily strain the muscles and ligaments behind the vertebral body, but also cause or aggravate cervical spondylosis.
Therefore, whether suffering from cervical spondylosis or not, we should pay attention to maintaining the physiological position of cervical lordosis.
The most ideal pillow height should be about 6-10cm. The hardness and softness should be moderate. The most important thing is that the shape should conform to the normal physiological curve of the neck. It is best to be a saddle like pillow with low middle, high ends, slightly high neck shoulder edge and low opposite edge, which is often called B-shaped pillow.
In addition to choosing the right pillow, the sleeping position is also very important. Lying on your back is the most effective way to prevent and improve cervical spondylosis. Lying on your side or lying on your stomach and pressing your arms under your head will increase the burden on the cervical spine.
3. TCM Massage
Cervical spondylosis is mainly due to the prominent nucleus pulposus compressing the surrounding nerves or blood vessels, resulting in nerve compression or poor blood circulation, which leads to pain in the head, neck, shoulder, back and shoulder, limited neck activity and other symptoms.
Traditional Chinese medicine massage is a wonderful work in the history of traditional Chinese medicine treatment in China. Through the masseur's regular back and forth massage on both sides of the patient's neck back, and point, press, press and push the surrounding acupoints, so as to reduce the pressure of the neck and alleviate neck fatigue, so as to effectively alleviate the symptoms of cervical spondylosis.
When cervical fatigue is uncomfortable, you can also use some small methods of self massage to relieve it at any time.
First, press the abdomen of both thumbs at the junction of head and neck, and press Fengchi point at the depression of one finger next to the posterior midline for 1 ~ 2 minutes.
Second, pinch the muscles on both sides of the cervical spine with the thumb and index finger of the left or right hand from behind the neck, or knead the sore points of the muscles on both sides of the cervical spine with the thumb abdomen of both hands for 2 ~ 3 minutes.
Third, put one hand to the upper part of the shoulder through the front, and knead or pinch the upper ganglia muscle with your fingers and abdomen for 2 ~ 3 minutes. Then tap the upper spinatus muscle on the palmar side for 10 times.
4. Hot compress therapy
In the treatment of early cervical spondylosis, such as stiff neck, sore neck or slight pain after catching cold, hot compress can be used to improve symptoms.
Use 20 grams of Shenjin grass, Tougu grass, safflower, notopterygium, papaya, turmeric, Sichuan pepper, wormwood leaf, asarum, Fangfeng and Clematis, plus 250 grams of clean fine sand, put them together in a cloth bag made of gauze, sew the belt mouth, and steam the medicine bag on a steamer for about 40 minutes.
Then take out the medicine bag and put it on the neck. At the beginning, several layers of soft cloth can be padded to avoid scalding. Generally, hot compress for 40 ~ 60 minutes can be used.
If the medicine bag is cold, you can steam it again. Hot compress once a day before going to bed.
The main purpose of hot compress therapy is to promote blood circulation, alleviate muscle spasm, activate blood and dredge collaterals, so as to treat cervical spondylosis.
5. Timely and active temperature regulation
The cervical spine is a very fragile part. Sometimes our body may not feel the temperature change, but the cervical spine has been damaged.
Here is a small way for you to prepare a small shawl in our office, so that we can take care of our cervical spine according to the change of temperature at any time.
6. Yoga
Yoga is a sport deeply loved by ol. In addition to exercising after work, it can also effectively prevent and treat cervical spondylosis.
According to the survey, the prevention and treatment effect of yoga on cervical spondylosis can reach 82.85%.
Yoga moves slowly and stretch, every