A short essay on spine health

In today's society, with the increasing pressure of study and work, as well as changes in life and entertainment, such as reading, writing, working and using computers. We sit at our desks for a long time, which will put a great burden on the whole spine and lead to premature degeneration. This is the reason why cervical and lumbar diseases are frequent and tend to be younger. According to the statistics of relevant staff, cervical and lumbar diseases have quietly entered the campus due to the large amount of students' study.

As a clinician, when accepting patients, patients often ask, "I haven't done any hard work, why does my lumbar vertebra (cervical vertebra) hurt?" "Many people think that these spinal diseases are related to work, but this idea is not correct.

Let's give a few examples, such as car drivers, tailors, white-collar workers in companies and people who often use computers. These people don't have much strength sitting on their limbs, but they are high-risk groups of cervical spondylosis and lumbar spondylosis! These people generally have some spinal problems with different degrees of severity. Those who work hard will have acute lumbar injuries, but there are few chronic cervical and lumbar strains.

It can be seen that the occurrence of spinal diseases is not necessarily related to heavy physical labor. On the contrary, it is a posture complementary to posture, such as sitting for a long time, which produces static and lasting' chronic traction' on the muscle ligaments around the spine, especially the cervical and lumbar vertebrae tend to bend forward, contrary to the physiological curvature of the cervical and lumbar vertebrae themselves, the local flexors are always in a state of contraction, which is easy to strain and degenerate, and eventually related symptoms appear.

At present, many clinicians only pay attention to the treatment of cervical and lumbar diseases, but not to the daily maintenance and prevention of recurrence in the later period. This is the reason why people often say that "diseases cannot be cured", because the pathogenic factors of these diseases have not been removed and have not been maintained in the later stage of treatment, so there will be a phenomenon of "diseases cannot be cured". Spinal medicine requires not only advocating acute treatment, but also paying attention to daily maintenance and prevention after spinal treatment. Only when treatment and maintenance are carried out at the same time can the curative effect be increased and maintained, and spinal diseases can be recovered for a long time.