What to do with aging cervical spine

Cervical spondylosis requires patients to use exercise in their daily lives to alleviate the aging of the cervical bones, and to move their muscles and bones more often and massage the cervical acupoints in their daily lives, so that cervical spondylosis can recover as soon as possible. For the symptoms of cervical aging, you can alleviate them according to the content introduced in the article, such as neck exercises and shaking the upper limbs. These practices can make the cervical spine active and relieve the symptoms of aging.

What to do about aging cervical spine

1. Neck exercise: Tilt your head forward ten times, tilt it back ten times, tilt it to the left ten times, and tilt it to the right ten times. Then slowly shake your head, turning left ten times and right ten times.

2. Shake your upper limbs: shake your left arm twenty times, then shake your right arm twenty times.

3. Practice your fingers by grabbing the air; stretch your arms out and flex and extend the five fingers of both hands. You can do this 50 times.

4. Local massage: You can find tender points, nodules or muscle tension near the neck, Dazhui point and Fengchi point, and rub, press, push and pinch these reaction points.

5. Remote acupoint pressing: look for tender points on the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the anterior and lateral sides of the buttocks, and the outer sides of the calves. Apply acupoint massage on this reaction point.

6. Rub your palms and waist: Put your palms together and rub them to warm them up. Then rub your hands on your waist, moving up and down, for 50 times.

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7. Pinch the ankle tendons: Use your hands alternately to pinch the large tendons behind the ankle.

8. Pinch and rub the Ren Zhong point with your thumb and index finger.

9. Lift and rub the ears; pull the ears with your hands, then rub them until the ears become warm.

You can perform the procedure once a day. The technique should be used from light to heavy gradually, and the intensity should be within the tolerance level. If the treatment is performed according to the law, it will generally be effective in 1-2 months.

Preventive measures for cervical aging

Just as some people have good physical conditions and are less likely to catch colds or fevers, the degree of cervical vertebrae degeneration is also closely related to the development of the cervical vertebrae. Knowing some common sense, fully understanding cervical degeneration, increasing exercise, and eliminating fatigue in a timely manner will all help delay the occurrence of degeneration.

Start small. Normal and good exercise during the development stage, a balanced diet without picky eating habits, and especially more outdoor exercise to allow the entire skeletal system to have more exposure to sunlight are very effective in promoting bone development. In this way, the cervical spine can have a good "youth foundation" to withstand the heavy pressure of the future and the laws of aging and degeneration.

Think more about your neck. Always pay attention to changing your lifestyle that is unfavorable to your cervical spine and take good care of your neck. For example, if your neck is often in a certain position, or you read while lying down, or other habits that increase the burden on your neck, you must correct them. Pay attention to protecting your neck and don't do extreme exercises. When exercising, find the balance and angle that suits you according to your own situation. Avoid and reduce acute injuries, such as avoiding cervical spine injuries during exercise, avoiding sudden braking, rear-end collisions and long-distance driving while driving, etc.

What to do about aging cervical spine

The pillow should be neither too high nor too low. The pillow should be adjusted according to your own physiological curvature. A high pillow can easily aggravate cervical spondylosis. Nowadays, wide and large pillows can often be seen in shopping malls, but they are actually very bad for the cervical spine. The width of a pillow should generally be the distance from the pillow to the shoulder, which should be around 30 cm, and the height should be best between 5 and 10 cm. The pillow filling material should be a material with a certain hardness and viscosity, low elasticity, and preferably a fine-spun wool felt pillow or buckwheat husk.

The cervical spine is sometimes the source of various diseases. If you experience dizziness, headache, vomiting, decreased vision, limb numbness, weakness, unsteady walking, decreased or loss of fine motor function, etc., it may be caused by worsening cervical spondylosis. You may wish to check your cervical vertebrae and carotid arteries. Dr. Teng Honglin reminds that once an MRI examination reveals the presence of nerve compression and the patient has obvious symptoms of nerve compression, especially spinal cord degeneration, or a sharp deterioration of spinal cord function, surgical treatment is generally required immediately. Otherwise, as time goes by, both the surgical efficacy and surgical risks will increase.

Be careful when doing massage. Chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, physical therapy, traction and surgery are all effective ways to treat cervical degeneration or cervical spondylosis. The key is to carefully analyze, treat them differently, and adopt effective and safe methods. Chiropractic is guided by the new theory of spinal kinematics, with spinal adjustment, curvature adjustment and exercise as the three major treatment principles. This new type of treatment for cervical and lumbar spondylosis is gentle and different from ordinary massage. Before performing acupressure, it is best to undergo a formal examination to rule out severe cervical spondylosis or cervical spondylosis. Otherwise, it is easy to aggravate cervical spondylosis and even cause iatrogenic injury.