What are the disadvantages of sleeping on your stomach

For office workers, you usually sleep on your stomach during lunch break in the company, but sleeping on your stomach has an impact on your health. For example, it can easily cause symptoms such as cervical spondylosis and hand paralysis. I hope you can choose a suitable method to rest. Taking a nap at noon can effectively relieve our fatigue, but sleeping on our stomach often is very bad for our health. I suggest you read the following content.

1. Cervical spondylotic radiculopathy. The most obvious feeling after waking up from sleeping on the table is a stiff neck and numb and weak arms. If the symptoms become severe and affect your daily work, you should be alert to cervical spondylosis. According to Wen Shifeng, sleeping on the desk is most likely to cause radiculopathy of cervical spondylosis. This is because the relaxation of the cervical-shoulder ligaments increases the degeneration of the intervertebral disc, which in turn causes the cervical intervertebral annulus fibrosus to rupture and the nucleus pulposus to protrude backwards and compress the nerve roots.

2. Cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Due to the degeneration and hyperplasia of the bony structure of the cervical vertebrae and the degeneration of the adjacent soft tissues (such as intervertebral disc herniation, bone spurs at the posterior edge of the vertebral body, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament, hypertrophy or calcification of the yellow ligament, etc.), direct compression of the spinal cord is caused. In addition, the influence of dynamic factors such as strenuous exercise or long-term poor posture leads to spinal cord compression or spinal cord ischemia, followed by spinal cord dysfunction.

3. Nerve compression can directly cause hand paralysis

According to Wen Shifeng, the more serious situation of sleeping on the table is that it causes muscle tension and directly compresses the nerves, which can severely lead to hand paralysis. It is reported that in the past, many alcoholic men in Russia fell to sleep directly after drinking. Because they maintained the same posture, their brachial plexus nerves or important blood vessels were compressed, so when they woke up, they found that one side of their upper limb was paralyzed.

4. Lumbar disc herniation

As with the cervical spine, excessive stretching of muscles and ligaments can cause degeneration of the lumbar disc. The L4/5 space and L5/S1 space, which are normally under the greatest pressure and have the greatest mobility, are the first to be affected and are prone to lumbar disc herniation.

This article tells us in detail that the disadvantages of sleeping on your stomach are mainly causing common symptoms such as lumbar disc herniation and cervical spondylosis, which are also often encountered by many white-collar friends. If you want to prevent cervical spondylosis and other bone cone diseases, you should avoid sleeping on your stomach for a long time. You can sleep lying down or leaning against an office chair instead.