How to treat cervical spondylosis

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Cervical spondylosis is very common in our daily life. It is also known as cervical syndrome. It is the general name of cervical osteoarthritis, proliferative cervical spondylitis, cervical nerve root syndrome and cervical disc prolapse. It is a disease based on degenerative pathological changes. How to treat regional diseases.

How to treat cervical spondylosis

First: pay attention to the reasonable arrangement of work and rest time, do regular maintenance exercises: desk work should not last for a long time, more than 2 hours of continuous bow work, it is difficult to make the high pressure in the cervical intervertebral space in a short time to get effective recovery and relief, this will aggravate and accelerate the degeneration of cervical spine. Proper maintenance exercises can make cervical spondylosis recover and relieve to a certain extent. For example: sit upright, the whole body does not move, single head movement, respectively do bow, head up, left turn, right turn, stretch forward, back; clockwise, counterclockwise around the action. 5 minutes each time, the movement should be gentle and gentle.

Second: avoid taking part in heavy physical labor: extraction of heavy objects, etc., usually should pay attention to the protection of the neck, to prevent injury. The upper limbs should avoid extracting heavy objects. When the upper limbs lift heavy objects, the force can be transferred to the cervical spine through the muscles of the suspended upper limbs, so that the cervical spine is pulled and the mutual pressure between the cervical spine is increased. The symptoms of patients with cervical spondylosis may be aggravated after taking part in heavy physical labor.

Third: pay attention to daily diet: drink less, eat more fresh vegetables: such as bean sprouts, kelp, fungus, garlic, celery, sweet potato, wax gourd, mung bean. Eat more light diet, avoid greasy and salty food, easy to digest food is an excellent choice, but also avoid spicy food. Eat more nutritious bone marrow food. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that walnut, Cornus officinalis, Shengdi, black sesame and ox bone have the function of tonifying kidney and marrow. These materials can be added to the daily diet to strengthen the muscles and bones and delay the degeneration of the kidney and spine.

matters needing attention

Have a good pillow to have a healthy sleep, and strong body. Generally speaking, the height of the pillow should be 10-12cm, and the width of the pillow should be 50-60cm; press your hand on the pillow surface of the cervical health pillow, release your hand quickly, and the rebound time of the standard pillow is 5-8s, which is not good if the rebound time is too long or too short. In this way, whether we sleep on our side or on our back, our cervical vertebra can closely fit the cervical vertebra and protect the cervical vertebra from being suspended.