How is your cervical spine?
Nowadays, more and more people bow their heads, and bowing their heads for a long time will cause deformation of the cervical spine. Many people have rounded shoulders and hunchbacks at a young age, which not only affects their appearance, but also harms their own health.
This issue of "1 Minute Health Class" invites Cai Huaan, the chief physician of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, to share several daily exercises and teach you how to save the cervical spine.
"At present, there are many patients with cervical spondylosis, and the trend of younger and younger age is becoming more and more obvious." Cai Huaan said that these patients generally work at a desk all year round and have poor posture for a long time.
The clinical manifestations are rounded shoulders, hunchback, neck flexion, eccentric heart, displacement of pelvic curve, etc.
Cai Huaan said that in order to improve the above situation, it is recommended to do YW movements in daily life.
The key to the Y action is to lie on your stomach and straighten your body, stretch your hands forward, thumb up, and do a movement of extending your torso upwards, while exhaling.
"The W action can activate the lower trapezius muscle. The main point of the action is to lie on the stomach and straighten the body, and bend both arms to form a W shape. At this time, you can feel the force of a clip of the lower trapezius muscle. At the same time, cooperate with exhalation, hold for 10 seconds, and then Relax."
Finally, I would like to remind the majority of netizens that YW movements are only self-practice movements. If your symptoms are severe or your symptoms do not improve after training, you must go to a professional medical institution for evaluation and treatment.