In the outpatient clinic, patients with cervical spondylosis often ask me: Doctor, you have read many articles on the Internet about how to exercise cervical spondylosis to help recover, and rarely tell us what movements cannot be done and what exercises to avoid participating in

cervical spondylosis patients often ask me: Doctor, you see a lot of articles on the Internet about how to exercise cervical spondylosis to help recover, and there are few suggestions to tell us which movements cannot be done and which exercises to avoid participating in. I specifically checked the Internet and found that there are indeed few articles about the movements that cannot be done by patients with cervical spondylosis. Well, pay more attention to health and less worry about illness. Today I will take you to learn about the actions that cannot be performed in cervical spondylosis.

First review what cervical spondylosis is? Cervical spondylosis refers to the corresponding symptoms and signs that manifest in the degenerative changes of the cervical intervertebral disc and its appendage structure, as well as secondary intervertebral arthritis degeneration changes stimulating or compressing the spinal cord, nerves, and blood vessel damage. Based on the pathogenesis of cervical spondylosis and combined with the clinical symptoms of patients, we can know which movements cannot be performed in cervical spondylosis.

Error Action 1 : Swing heads sharply

There are many people in life who have the habit of shook their heads, especially when they feel the pain in their necks, they will unconsciously shake their heads and twist their necks, hoping that the cervical spine that is in the same position for a long time can be relieved. However, if you shake your head and twist your neck too much, the cervical spine cannot adapt in time, which will cause neck muscle damage and neck small joint dislocation, which will lead to cervical pain, especially for patients with cervical spondylosis. patients with spinal cord type cervical spondylosis must not do head-shifting exercises, especially the symptoms of spinal cord compression are relatively serious. Patients who have developed upper and lower limb motor dysfunction and spastic paralysis cannot do head-shifting exercises, otherwise it will lead to spinal cord injury and paralysis of the patient for life.

Error Action 2 : Long-term bowing

People with cervical spondylosis often have different degrees of degeneration in the neck, muscle tissue tension and tenderness, scar adhesion, cervical vertebrae hyperplasia, intervertebral joint disorder, cervical disc herniation, etc. Many of us often bow our heads due to work needs, playing games or mobile phones. If we keep the cervical spine in a head-down position for a long time, local cervical spine soft tissue damage will further aggravate. It is understood that when you lower your head and play with your phone, it is equivalent to 50 kilograms of things on your head. Patients with nerve root type cervical spondylosis , vertebral artery cervical spondylosis and cervical spondylosis should not exercise to bow their heads.

Error Action Three : Quickly turn the head

When rotating the head and neck, due to the aging of the intervertebral disc, the static residual tension in the fascia increases. The vertebral artery in the transverse process of the cervical vertebra is stimulated by nearby hyperplasia, which is prone to spasm, causing insufficient blood supply to the vertebral artery, thereby causing nausea, tinnitus , and dizziness. For vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis, remember not to do quick head-turning exercises, otherwise the symptoms will become more serious. Patients with vertigo symptoms will deeply understand this. There are naturally answers to questions about those who cannot do exercises in cervical spondylosis: playing badminton, high jump, jumping, rope jumping, , fighting, racing and other relatively intense exercises need to be avoided.

Now you know what actions can't be done in cervical spondylosis.