In my video example, the young mother was unable to get up directly after giving birth. After movement screening, she found that the root cause was cervical instability, and the normal function of the cervical spine was restored through target training.

Have you found that you often experience neck and shoulder pain and discomfort after giving birth, and easily stiff neck and other symptoms? In my video example, the young mother was unable to get up directly after giving birth. After movement screening, she found that the root cause was cervical instability, and the normal function of the cervical spine was restored through target training. If there is cervical and shoulder discomfort and frequent stiff neck occipital symptoms after delivery, it indicates that there may be problems with the stability of the cervical spine.

Why do postpartum cervical instability occur? There are two factors. One is that during pregnancy, a kind of relaxin will be secreted in the pregnant woman's body. The function is to relax the muscles of the pregnant woman's tract and facilitate childbirth; but relaxin cannot tell which muscle it is acting on, so it will also cause a certain degree of relaxation of the muscles and ligaments throughout the body, including the neck, which will affect the stability of the neck;

The secretion of relaxin not only relaxes the pelvic floor muscles, but also affects skeletal muscles, including the neck muscle groups

On the other hand, relaxin is one Generally, the metabolism will be completed 2 to 4 months after delivery, but the fetal volume and weight of pregnant women continue to increase during pregnancy, which makes it difficult for pregnant women to get up directly from the lying position, forming the habit of getting up sideways (although it is conducive to alleviating lumbar pressure). The neck flexion and get up movement pattern that is almost impossible in daily life. Under the action of relaxin, the neck flexion muscle group gradually atrophy and the proprioception of the neck flexion movement decreases (that is, the muscle memory decreases), and the neck flexion muscle group is the most important cervical stabilization muscle group. Therefore, some postpartum mothers cannot complete normal neck flexion and even get up movements even after the relaxin is metabolized.

The harm of cervical instability: cervical instability will accelerate the degeneration of the cervical vertebrae, such as straightening of the curvature of the cervical vertebrae, disorder of the cervical vertebrae, frequent stiff neck and occlusal joints, etc. The symptoms can be seen as numbness in the upper limbs or fingers, discomfort in the neck and shoulders, and headache and dizziness. The most serious situation that friends with poor cervical spine stability may occur is that the probability of whip-like damage to the spinal (neck) marrow whip when driving or riding in a car is higher. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out cervical stability training.

When driving or driving or riding in a car, mothers with unstable cervical spine may suffer from whip-like injury to the spinal (neck) marrow whip-like injury

So how to check if they have obvious unstable cervical spine? There is a simple but effective screening method, see the video content sharing.