Many people now suffer from cervical spondylosis, which mainly includes symptoms such as neck and back pain, upper limb weakness, numbness in the fingers, lower limb weakness, difficulty walking, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. Most of them are caused by incorrect sleeping posture and improper sitting posture at work. What health exercises can people with cervical spondylosis do to treat cervical spondylosis?
1. Health exercises to treat cervical spondylosis
Cervical spondylosis health exercises are very simple, once a day in the morning and evening, about 10 minutes each time. The specific methods are as follows:
1. Look up at the sky: Take a standing or sitting position, put your hands on your hips, tilt your head and neck back to look at the sky, and gradually increase the angle. Wait for a few seconds and then restore. ***Do it 8 times.
2. Neck and arm resistance: Take a standing or sitting position, hold your hands behind the head and pillow, and clamp the neck on both sides with your forearms. Turn your head and neck forcefully to the left, and at the same time resist it with your left forearm. Continue to resist for a few seconds, then relax and restore, and then do it in the opposite direction. Do 6 to 8 times each; or take a standing or sitting position with your hands crossed and pressed against the back of your head. Stretch your head and neck back hard, and use your hands to block it. Continue to fight for a few seconds and then restore it. ***Do 6-8 times.
3. Around the neck: Take a standing or sitting position, relax and rotate your head and neck, alternately clockwise and counterclockwise. ***Do it six times.
4. Look left and right: Take a standing or sitting position, put your hands on your hips, and rotate your head and neck to the left and right in turn. Whenever it reaches the maximum limit, it will turn back slightly and then exceed the original range. It should be noted that both eyes should also look towards the back or above as much as possible. Turn 10 times on each side.
5. Turn around and look back: Take a standing position, lunge forward to the right, rotate your body to the left, and at the same time, lift your right palm as high as possible, stretch your left palm downwards, and look back at your left hand. After recovery, change to left front lunge, in the opposite direction, with the same movements. Alternate left and right, and do it 8-10 times.
The health exercises we introduce today are applicable to everyone. Therefore, whether you have suffered from cervical spondylosis or not, doing these health exercises regularly will be helpful in preventing and treating cervical spondylosis. Don’t underestimate the dangers of cervical spondylosis. If not treated in time, it will affect your ability to walk upright, and you may have to spend the rest of your life in bed. Therefore, when treating cervical spondylosis, we must seize the time and use the right method.
2. Harm of cervical spondylosis
1. Stroke. According to incomplete statistics, more than 90% of stroke patients have cervical spondylosis, but many people do not pay attention to it and do not know it after the stroke, especially many doctors do not understand it.
2. Stubborn insomnia and neurasthenia. It has been clinically observed that more than 70% of people with this disease have cervical spondylosis. But many patients and doctors just treat insomnia blindly.
3. Recurrent dizziness. It is mainly caused by compression of the vertebral artery. If you suddenly faint while working at heights, walking by the river, driving, or operating machines, it will have serious consequences.
4. Severe memory loss.
5. The neck is stiff and unable to rotate.
6. Autonomic nerve dysfunction.
7. Pain and weakness in upper limbs.
8. High paraplegia.
9. Deafness.
The above are the harms caused by cervical spondylosis. Therefore, cervical spondylosis is not a minor illness and must be treated in time. If you are troubled by cervical spondylosis, timely conditioning and treatment are particularly important. Traditional Chinese medicine has many home care methods for treating cervical spondylosis. You can give it a try.