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Cervical spine problems can cause shoulder and neck pain, dizziness and nausea. In addition to making people ugly, they can also affect daily life and even endanger life.

You once said that you want to never be separated from the bed. But just after lying for half a month, I realized that any relationship is not easy.

It’s not easy for you, it’s even harder for your cervical spine.

This spring festival, the epidemic continues to sting everyone’s heart. In order not to gather in the cinema to add chaos, “Aunt” first tried free Internet premiere. As of 00:00 on January 27, the number of broadcasts on major platforms exceeded 600 million, and the number of viewers reached 180 million.

Blind guess, what posture did these 180 million people watch? Does it include, but is not limited to, lying down, lying down, lying sideways, crooked, leaning? Your cervical spine tells me: yes.

This week, remote work has begun, and you have finally achieved the work mode you have always expected: working in bed. It’s not that this posture is unattractive, it’s just that your increasingly rigid neck can no longer bear it.

I just saw the update of “Want to Meet You” after work. You who were in a drama shortage immediately changed your face, and poked the play button.

No girl of any age can escape the sniper of Xu Guanghan. / “Want to meet you”

Your sleepy mind is off work, your life-threatening staff is off work, most of the organs are off work, but the cervical spine is still holding on. The cervical spine is too bad.

It seems that the young cervical spine in China is living like this.

In July 2019, after the Health China Action Promotion Committee listed cervical spondylosis as a disease that workers should prevent individually, the topic of # cervical spondylosis or will be included in the legal occupational disease # caused 410 million discussions on Weibo.

In the past, cervical spondylosis was a well-known common disease in middle-aged and elderly people, but now, how many young people in their 20s are dragging their necks like a tofu project every day.

Cervical spine problems can cause shoulder and neck pain, dizziness and nausea. In addition to making people ugly, they can also affect daily life and even endanger life.

Cervical spine problems cannot be underestimated. / Picture Creativity

Evolutionary loopholes, let cervical spondylosis go with you

The cervical vertebra refers to the cervical vertebra. There are 7 pieces below the head and above the thoracic spine.

The cervical spine is connected by the intervertebral disc and the ligament, forming a physiological curvature of the lordosis. The cervical vertebra includes not only vertebrae and ligaments, but also nerves and blood vessels, so that your neck can move flexibly.

The cervical spine is probably one of the most vulnerable places in the human body, but it bears the heavy task of supporting the head. The head looks small, and it has weighed 4-5 kg, accounting for 7.7% of the adult’s weight.

The red part in the picture is the 7 bones of the human cervical spine. / Anatomography

But this is just the bearing of the cervical spine in normal posture. In real life, no one can avoid doing anything while looking at the phone.

When the head angle reaches 30 degrees, the cervical vertebra’s load will reach about 18 kilograms, and when the head angle reaches 60 degrees, the cervical vertebra’s load will reach 27 kilograms.

A piece of luggage is only 23 kilograms, so I feel struggling to drag it, let alone keep it on my head all the time. Over time, cervical spondylosis will depend on you.

Is this cervical spine design a bit unscientific? Perhaps this is the case, the cervical spine may be an upright evolutionary loophole that we have not yet perfected.

Humans have been walking upright for only 5 million years, but their body structure has undergone many key adjustments. For example, the physiological curvature of the four spines, including the cervical spine, as well as the arch and Achilles tendon.

5 million years is a long time, but it is only 1% of the history of vertebrate evolution since the Cambrian 500 million years.

Compare with the birds we know. As descendants of dinosaurs, their ability to live upright has been perfect. Looking at the chicken, the process of squatting and standing is smooth and elegant; looking at the ostrich, no matter how you run, the head movement is always a straight line. But what about people?

You and my cervical spine can’t keep up with the evolution. While we were using the cervical spine reluctantly, we unknowingly consumed it.

In the German documentary “How We Live”, Thomas Muller represents ordinary modern Germans, and lived in industrialization. (200 years ago) < / span> and Middle Stone Age (8500 years ago) Two ancestors compared bone health.

Screenshot of the documentary “Deutschland-Wie wir leben”

The results show that the bones in the Stone Age are strong and firm, which is a reflection of reasonable exercise and rest. The asymmetries of the spine’s edges have appeared in the bones during the industrialization period, which may be caused by using the side of the body in industrial labor. Thomas, who was healthier than the two ancestors, had muscle aches, wider waists, severe shoulder and back pain, and cervical problems.

A similar life gives us a healthy state similar to Thomas. Among the “ten major diseases in the world” announced by the World Health Organization, cervical spondylosis ranks second, behind cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The number of patients with cervical spondylosis worldwide has reached more than 900 million.

In China, according to the Changjiang Daily, there are about 200 million patients with cervical spondylosis, and the incidence is about 17.3%. The annual cost of cervical spondylosis treatment is more than 500 million yuan.

It is still intact without a young cervical spine

Just in the last century, cervical spondylosis was an unquestionable geriatric disease.

In 1930, Puschel found that the water content of the nucleus pulposus decreased after 50 years of age, resulting in degenerative changes;

In 1940, Stookey’s study showed that the average age of patients with cervical disc disease was 53 years old;

In 1954, Pallis Jones and Spillane emphasized that cervical spondylosis is a common disease in the elderly, with 75% of people over 65 years of age having typical radiological changes.

But the age distribution of cervical spondylosis has changed dramatically in recent yearsThe trend of youth and youth is unstoppable.

A survey of 2000 domestic patients with cervical spondylopathy reported by the Yangtze River Daily showed that the number of patients under the age of 30 was 22% higher than the number of patients aged 30-50. In the past 20 years, the age of cervical spondylosis has also fallen from 55 to 39.

Cervical spondylosis is killing young people. / pexels

The survey data looks scary but credible, because there are countless examples around.

Olivia used her annual leave to go to the hospital to see the cervical spine.

When she got up that morning, she felt dizzy and nauseated, and thought it was hypoglycemia. She went to the hospital, and the radiography showed that the physiological curve of the cervical spine became straight. The high probability is caused by the habit of bowing for a long time.

Old stalks many years ago said that white-collar workers are “white bone essence”, and it still seems very accurate. The rattle of bones in the office sounds like hundreds of years old.

The sedentary and bow-headed people, who are troubled by it and difficult to change the way of working, are deeply worried about their cervical spine health. The “Workplace Health Report 2019” recruited by Zhilian shows that 67.9% of white-collar workers are most worried about cervical spine problems.

I just want to ask: Is cervical spondylosis a work injury? / unsplash

A survey of 1010 white-collar workers in Shimen Second Road Street, Jing’an District, Shanghai, proved that such concerns are necessary. Because the number of people who meet the diagnosis of cervical spondylosis is as high as 342 cases, accounting for 33.9%.

The prevalence of employees who work more than 4 hours a day at the desk is significantly higher than those who work less than 4 hours at the desk; the prevalence of non-exercise people is significantly higher than those who exercise weekly.

The survey also revealed many unrecognized symptoms of cervical spine, which are likely to be warning signs and manifestations of cervical spondylosis.

Neck pain or numbness accounted for 54% of all participants, vertigo (28.2%) , upper limb pain or numbness (16.5%) , trembling (0.4%) Data on cervical spondylosis-related symptoms are also impressive.

“Investigation and Analysis of Cervical Spondylosis in White Collar Population”

These conditions are really difficult to avoid, because modern occupations seem to be high incidence of cervical spondylosis.

The IT industry has the most cervical spine patients, accounting for 44.1% of all patients (including e-commerce, copywriting, and graphic design). Flowing workers ranked second with 15.9%, again with 15.4% for drivers, 12.3% for teachers, and 9.4% for financial staff.

No wonder that programmers’ advanced learning path is from “Introduction to X Language” to “Advanced Programming in X Language”, from “Science and Art of X Language” to “The Beauty of Programming”, and finally from “Programming Zen “to” Rehabilitation Guide to Cervical Spondylopathy “.

How is cervical disease entangled with you

Most young cervical spine problems are not usually considered a problem. Everyone calls this chronic strain.

After modernization, a lot of bad work habits have to be blamed for this.

A 35-year-old man in Taiwan suffers from cervical degeneration as 70 years old because of lying in bed for more than 3 hours every day. Caused cervical spine deformity and obvious bone spurs.

As long as the holiday, diet and living are all in bed. / unsplash

Don’t think that this is just an extreme case in social news. Do you dare to say that you spend less time playing mobile phones every day than him?

Data from QuestMobile in June 2018 show that Chinese people spend about 5 hours a day watching mobile phones, an increase of 66.7% over the past two years.

In order to ridicule this intemperate modern living habits, cartoonists often paint future humans as “monsters” with smaller brains, fewer teeth, and more curved cervical spine. Horrible is terrible in the caricature of a sudden sudden reality.

The BBC reported last year that Australian scholar David Shahar’s research found that one-quarter of young people aged 16-30 have a bone behind their skulls, and the longer they grow, the longer they grow. He believes that the main reason is that young people have long bowed their heads to play with mobile phones, which is caused by excessive pressure on the back of the neck.

Another common cause of cervical spondylosis is improper sleeping posture.

ForFor 996’s social animals, it is already valuable to have a lunch break, and of course you must lie down for a while. But this kind of sleeping position without a neck is accompanied by great risks.

The media once reported that a lady from Harbin, who was lying on her back for an hour every day, could not lift her wrist a day, only to find that the radial nerve of the hand was damaged due to cervical problems, and surgery was needed.

I dare not lie on my desk to sleep in the morning. / unsplash

The nightly sleeping position that is automatically grasped from birth is a blind spot for most people.

We sleep about one-third of the day, and our neck is relaxed during deep sleep. Once the height of the pillow is not appropriate, and the cervical spine is under too much stress during sleep, it will cause a part of the cervical spine to flex too much.

The survey found that more than half of college students’ pillow heights did not meet the requirements. Only pillows that are about 15 cm longer than the width of the shoulders and about one punch high when lying down are your wise choice.

Furthermore, the lack of or inappropriate physical exercise has not let us go because we talked too much.

Alibaba ’s “Workplace Sports White Paper” released in 2019 shows that 40% of the workforce are completely inactive. And about 41% of the workplace suffers from cervical problems.

Don’t ask why the cervical spondylosis is young and crazy. Take a look at this white paper. The post-90s exercise has been left behind by the 60s, coupled with coldness in summer, insomnia in winter, insomnia, and chronic pharyngitis (research Shows that pharyngitis is related to cervical spondylosis), the weak and helpless cervical spine has long been unbearable.

Workers are struggling with work and have no time to exercise. / pexels

There are also a lot of young cases. Remember that when you were a kid, your neck hurts and your back hurts, your old father would say, “How can a child have a waist?”

But cervical spine problems in young children are no longer alone. A 9-year-old patient experienced degenerative changes in the cervical spine with left disc herniation, and the strain was equivalent to that of a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties.

The case of 8 years old in Hebei Province, the case of 2 years old in Hunan Province, and the case of 2 1/2 years old in Ningxia, the numbers are getting smaller and smaller, but the crisis is getting bigger and bigger.

Advanced path for self-rescue of cervical spine for young Buddhists

It used to be that young people couldn’t escape eating and singing movies on the weekend. I miss that simple age now.

When the aunts and uncles went for the square dance, there were young people lying in rows in the physiotherapy shop. Groups of stiff cervical vertebrae are waiting in line.

Since the gym’s annual card will sooner or later become a membership card for the massage shop, it is better to preview the middle-aged life in advance of the middle-aged crisis.

Contemporary young people, previewing the middle-aged crisis in a massage shop. / Picture Creativity

Tuna stores have become not only a punching resort, but young people have also gained the people who know them best.

Some netizens said thatMaster Li is the one who knows him best. He leaves work early to get his cervical spine in Master Li’s “press, touch, pull, pinch, rub, and drag” technique. I heard that he has suggested that the boss will go for a massage together next time.

When massage became a new maca for young people, they often went to physiotherapy shops and couldn’t afford it. Young people who looked bright on the surface began to look for “perverted” neck protectors on a treasure.

In our impression, the neck support products may still stay in the bamboo pillows of the seventh aunt. The aunt’s traditional Chinese medicine pillow is buckwheat or cassia.

Senior Experience Official Netizen @ LAN 珊 那 人 2009 After comparing a variety of neck pillows, it is not clear which one has played a role.

These traditional therapies are not suitable for everyone. For example, the material of the bamboo pillow is too stiff, and the shape does not conform to the cervical spine, which may aggravate cervical dislocation. The traditional Chinese medicine pillow, because of its granular filling, is easily compressed and deformed, and the effect is also Very limited.

Many netizens are starting to look for more hardcore equipment, including tractors and traction beds.

It is true that many hospitals will use traction to alleviate cervical spine problems, but if you do it by yourself, once the traction is too strong, you will easily get injured. Many people did not go to the hospital to see the cervical spine but instead had to report to a doctor because of improper traction.

It’s better to buy a yoga mat after spending so much money. / unsplash

Now more and more demon-ghost neck artifacts are emerging one after another. Constant temperature hot compresses, low-frequency pulses, singing, U-shaped design is extended to a mobile phone, all kinds of rushed to come to “rescue “Your neck.

Until the concept of ergonomics entered the vision of these fashionable people, the neck-care industry immediately became scientifically fascinating and well-founded.

I heard that ergonomics consists of six branches of discipline, including anthropometrics