People are increasingly inseparable from the cell phone, computer. Long hours of work, playing games, etc., many people have “cell phone not away from hand”. A long time will inevitably appear neck discomfort, and the circle of friends can often see some relief of neck discomfort “prescription”, such as tilting the head to look at the phone, pulling the neck, so you can really protect the cervical spine?
Please note that these methods may instead harm your cervical spine.
Do not blindly do it yourself by stretching your neck
Our cervical spine is surrounded by a lot of muscle wraps, low posture will make the muscles behind the cervical spine is stretched, like a rubber band is straightened, in a tense state.
If you are in a low head posture for a long time, the muscles are easily fatigued, leading to muscle strain and neck pain. In the long run, it will cause a decline in the strength of the neck muscles, and the increase in cervical spine force leads to a high incidence of cervical spondylosis.
At present, more and more young people work for long hours at the desk or play games for a long time with their heads down, resulting in muscle strain, and there are various methods circulating on the Internet to alleviate neck discomfort, such as the just-mentioned neck pulling.
In fact, this method is wrong, because pulling the neck simulates traction in the clinical treatment of neurogenic cervical spondylosis, and is not applicable to the treatment of muscle strain. Before traction therapy, you must go to a regular hospital for a clear diagnosis, do not blindly operate on your own.
Tilt your head back to look at the phone as usual muscle strain
There are many people think, since the previous mentioned, cervical spine problems, because of a long time low head, so I just “reverse operation”, tilt your head back to look at the phone, is not to protect the cervical spine?
This approach is also unscientific. Prolonged maintenance of a position, whether it is low or tilted head to look at the phone, may bring muscle strain.
Take care of your cervical spine, do this
Take a look at the 3 suggestions to protect the cervical spine.
Avoid prolonged bowing First of all, avoid prolonged bowing of the head, appropriate rest, such as bowing of the head for half an hour, lift the head to relax, move the cervical spine, do not let the cervical vertebrae long-term high-pressure posture.
Daily activities in all directions through the way to exercise the neck muscles, so that the cervical spine for the front, back, left, right activities in all directions, need to be reminded that the cervical spine to do exercise should not be too fast, so as to avoid damage to the muscles.
Exercise neck strength, want to really cure, must be from the root through exercise, to strengthen the neck muscle strength. We recommend badminton, breaststroke and other head-up exercises to strengthen the neck muscles.
Pay attention to the cervical spine to keep warm, the cervical spine should pay attention to keep warm, don’t always busy online weaving microblogging, we also have to give their neck neck, to avoid the cold and other factors caused by the neck muscle strain.
