How is the cervical vertebrae bump formed

Everyone must be very familiar with the name "wealth bag". Many people have this wealth bag in life. Although the name "wealth bag" sounds nice, having it will cause great harm to the health of the cervical spine. The location of the hump of wealth is above the cervical spine, which will affect the blood supply to the head. Therefore, many people with hump of wealth often experience dizziness, pain, tinnitus and blurred vision.

1. What is a wealth bag?

The name "wealth bag" started to spread from the beauty industry. It refers to the hard lumps at the junction of the neck and chest in the upper back, that is, around the spinous processes of the seventh cervical vertebra and the first thoracic vertebra. Since the women who come for beauty treatments are either wealthy businessmen or wealthy ladies, they are “honoredly called” “wealth bag”, and there is a trend that the bigger the bag, the wealthier it is!

2. What causes the rich bag?

1. Physiological reasons

As shown in the figure: the physiological curvature of the cervical spine is convex forward, and the physiological curvature of the thoracic spine is convex backward, one in front and one behind, forming a turning point at the cervical 7 and thoracic 1 positions. If the upper thoracic spine is too kyphotic or the cervical spine is protruding forward, it will inevitably cause the turning point to bend too much, resulting in a bulge of the muscle and forming the so-called "wealth bag".

2. Muscle fatigue causes posture changes

For some people, the physiological curvature of the cervical and thoracic vertebrae is normal, but they may also have humpbacks. What is the reason? This situation is mostly caused by insufficient tension in the cervical and thoracic muscles. The normal posture of these people is that the shoulders and back droop forward and the head falls backward, which artificially causes the curvature of the turning point to be too large. Once they stand up straight with their chest and head raised, the humpbacks will disappear.

3. Too much bowing

Lowering your head or leaning forward can cause the formation of wealth bags.

4. Anterior pelvic tilt

Unilateral or bilateral pelvic tilt and excessive lumbar curvature lead to compensatory changes in the curvature of the thoracic and cervical vertebrae, causing hickeys.

3. The harm of wealth bag

The bony and muscular swelling is not the key point. The key is that the numbness, swelling and pain caused by the "wealth hump" are related to nerve irritation, compression and clamping, and even entrapment symptoms: the nerves that innervate the small muscle groups at the back of the cervical and thoracic junction are mainly the dorsal branches of the spinal nerves. After these nerves are emitted from the intervertebral foramen, the medial branches innervate the muscles near the spine, while the lateral branches run farther and can innervate the muscles and skin sensation on the back of the scapula. Therefore, the larger the "wealth hump" is, the more severe the bony swelling and muscle tension and spasm are, and the more severe and obvious the stimulation to the dorsal branch of the spinal nerve is, especially the lateral branch, which is the main cause of widespread soreness and swelling in the upper back and numbness, paralysis and other abnormal sensations or disappearance in the "wealth hump" area. In addition, the dorsal branch is also connected to the sympathetic chain, and the stellate tubercle of the cervical sympathetic and the thoracic sympathetic chain are also next to the vertebral body in front of the transverse process, and are also easily compressed and irritated. Therefore, it is not only soreness, numbness, swelling and pain, but also possible symptoms of sympathetic nerve irritation such as chest tightness, panic, insomnia, rapid heartbeat, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.