How to choose a pillow with cervical spondylosis tips for choosing a pillow with cervical spondylosis
4hw.com.cn: choosing a pillow is not only related to sleep quality, but also can avoid cervical spine deformation. For friends with cervical spondylosis, choosing a suitable pillow is particularly important, so how to choose a pillow with cervical spondylosis? Let's take a look with Xiaobian.
How to choose the pillow of cervical spondylosis
I. pay attention to the pillow core filling:
There are many kinds of fillers for pillows. Patients with spondylosis had better choose duck down with good air permeability. Sponge and plastic tea are not recommended. It is better to be soft and breathable. Commonly used are duck down, buckwheat skin, dandelion, kapok, mung bean shell, chicken feather, duck feather, etc. Duck down is light, soft and breathable, and the pillow height can be adjusted freely when in use. It is an ideal pillow core filler; Buckwheat skin has the advantages of low price and good air permeability; Mung bean shell is most suitable for summer. It not only has good ventilation performance, but also has the effect of cooling and relieving summer heat. Sponge and plastic air pillow have poor air permeability and are not suitable for use.
II. Pillow height:
Pillows are neither too high nor too low. We should choose a suitable height. As the saying goes, 'rest assured', but not from a medical point of view. If the pillow is too high, the head and neck will be excessively bent forward; Low pillow or no pillow makes the head and neck in an excessive upward extension state for a long time, resulting in increased cervical lordosis. Therefore, the habit of long-term high pillow, low pillow and no pillow should be overcome. Generally speaking, the pillow height should be 8-15cm, or calculated according to the formula: (shoulder width - head width) & pile; 2。 For those who are used to lying on their back, the height of their pillow should be consistent with the height of their fist: for those who are used to sleeping on their side, the height of their pillow should be consistent with the width and length of their shoulder. When sleeping, you can flatten the middle of the pillow and pad up the place where the neck rests on the pillow, so that the cervical spine will neither bend forward nor bend sideways, and maintain an appropriate backward extension position. So you won't have cervical pain when you get up in the morning.
Three pillow shapes:
Don't underestimate the shape of the pillow. Different shapes have varying degrees of impact on spondylosis. The shape of the pillow is better in the form of a treasure with a low middle and high ends, because this shape can use the depression in the middle to maintain the physiological curvature of the cervical spine, and can also play a corresponding braking and fixing role on the head and neck, which can reduce the abnormal activities of the head and neck during sleep. The length of the pillow is generally 10-16cm longer than your shoulder width.
The importance of choosing pillows for cervical spondylosis
Relevant research shows that poor sleeping position and uncomfortable pillow height are often one of the important reasons for cervical spondylosis! If the cervical vertebra cannot be well placed during sleep, and the cervical vertebra maintains an abnormal posture for a long time, it is easy to lead to prolapse or loosening of the vertebral body in the neck, deformation and instability of joints, compression and narrowing of blood vessels, compression of nerve spine or spinal cord, deformation of ligaments and muscle tissues, and then lead to different types of cervical spondylosis.
According to the degree of cervical spondylopathy, muscle tissue injury and changes of blood vessels and nerves, when choosing a pillow, we must take the principle of restoring the physiological curvature of the cervical spine as the principle, so we should consider selecting a pillow suitable for the physiological curvature of the head! When the patient lies flat and sleeps, the pillow suitable for the physiological curvature of the cervical spine can keep the patient's ears, chin and bed in a straight line. Such a pillow is more suitable for patients with cervical spondylosis. This method is the selection principle of cervical spondylosis.