1. In view of the fact that the physiological curvature of cervical vertebra in patients with early cervical spondylosis becomes straight or inverted, it is suggested that patients should put a pillow with an appropriate height on their shoulders before going to bed, and then lie flat for about half an hour to make their head and neck naturally lean back. This will help to relax muscles, relieve back pain caused by cervical spondylosis, and restore the physiological curvature of cervical vertebra to a certain extent.
2. Before going to bed, the patient needs to adjust the pillow to a suitable position again. For patients with cervical spondylosis, it is best to keep a flat posture. Put a pillow under your neck when you sleep, and don't let your neck hang. In addition, you can sleep on your side. In this posture, the spine naturally forms an arch, and when you lie on your side, you will bend your legs and relax your muscles, which will help improve your sleep quality.
3. We often see from TV or some popular science books that sleeping sideways is good for heart health, saying that we should sleep like a bow. It seems that only sleeping on your side is scientific. Indeed, the correct lateral position is conducive to reducing the burden on the heart and blood flowing into the liver, which is conducive to the digestion of food by the gastrointestinal tract, but for patients with cervical spondylosis, the lateral position is not the best sleeping position.
Let me introduce you to the comparison of various sleeping positions:
1, prone position: Because the body is prone and the head leans to one side, it is obviously extremely unfavorable to the balance and physiological curvature of the neck and affects breathing. Therefore, prone sleep is an unhealthy and unscientific sleeping posture and must be corrected.
2, lateral position: the right lateral position of the heart is located on the left side, it does have less pressure on the heart, which is conducive to blood circulation and food digestion in the stomach, but it is also easy to cause gastric acid reflux and skin sagging. Although sleeping in the left lateral position is conducive to the discharge of stomach contents into the lower digestive tract and helps digestion, it is easy for people to sleep uneasily because the left lateral position oppresses the heart and stomach. When choosing a lateral position, always change the left and right direction of your lateral position. Taking the lateral position for a long time will make the spine unbalanced, which is not conducive to the treatment and rehabilitation of cervical spondylosis. Therefore, for patients with cervical spondylosis, lying on the side is not the best sleeping position.
3, supine position: sleeping on the back is a sleeping position recommended by many doctors, because it can better maintain the natural curvature of the spine, suitable for people with cervical or spinal pain. So what kind of supine position is standard? In supine position, the head and neck are placed in the middle depression of the pillow, so that the fulcrum of the pillow is located in the middle of the back of the neck and adapts to the curvature of the back of the neck to maintain the normal physiological curvature of the cervical spine.
How to do daily nursing for patients with cervical spondylosis and pay attention to psychological adjustment? Improve the awareness of disease prevention, enhance the confidence of treatment, and master rehabilitation methods. At the same time, pay attention to adjusting psychological emotions and maintaining mental health.
Do proper exercise. Correctly carry out head and neck function exercise, adhere to neck exercise, do rubber ball or towel training with both hands, and do various finger movements.
Avoid catching cold. Avoid colds and inappropriate neck movements. It is not advisable to use a high pillow when sleeping at night. Use a low pillow on the neck, with the pillow side slightly higher, and keep the neck upright when lying on your side.
Avoid lowering your head for a long time. Proper neck activity in daily work can avoid bowing your head for a long time, thus preventing cervical spondylosis.
Acupoint massage. Knead the neck, shoulder and upper back muscles 10-20 times by rubbing with fingers and palms to relax the muscles. Massage Fengchi, Shoujing, Tianzong, Raft, Fengmen and Ashi (pain point) 1-2 minutes, depending on the degree of acid swelling.
Self-test method of cervical spondylosis 1. Radiation pain similar to electric shock in a certain part of the limb is a typical manifestation of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy. If accompanied by dizziness, nausea and visual rotation, it is often accompanied by cervical spondylosis of vertebral artery type.
2, finger numbness, especially numbness on both sides, may be cervical spondylosis, leading to the compression of important structures of the spinal cord.
3. Finger flexion and extension experiment: It is normal to make a fist by hand and then straighten it completely, and do it for more than 20 times in 10 second.
4. Try to walk with your feet in a line. Patients with cervical spondylosis cannot walk in a straight line.