It’s amazing that flying kites regularly can cure a disease!

How to exercise for cervical spondylosis? In this fast-paced living environment, cervical spondylosis has become a common disease in life, and teachers, editors, IT workers, etc. are all high-risk groups for cervical spondylosis, which has a lot to do with long hours of desk work and lack of necessary exercise.

What are the symptoms of cervical spondylosis?

Common complications: 1. Visual impairment in patients with cervical spondylosis. Symptoms include decreased vision, eye pain, photophobia, tearing, unequal pupil sizes, and even a narrowing of the visual field and a sharp decrease in vision. Some patients may even go blind. This is related to the ischemic lesions in the visual center of the occipital lobe of the brain caused by autonomic nervous system disorders and insufficient blood supply to the vertebral-basilar artery due to cervical spondylosis.

Common complication 2: Hypertension and cervical spondylosis. These two diseases often go hand in hand. Once cervical spondylosis occurs, it can cause blood pressure to rise or fall as the disease progresses. Among them, high blood pressure is more common, which is called "cervical hypertension." Since cervical spondylosis and hypertension are both common diseases among middle-aged and elderly people, the two often coexist.

Common complication three: cervical spondylosis causes lower limb disorders and even complete paralysis. The early symptoms are numbness, pain, and lameness in the lower limbs. Some patients feel like they are walking on cotton when walking. Some patients may also have bowel and urination disorders, such as frequent urination, urgency, difficulty urinating, or incontinence. This is because the lateral vertebral bundle is stimulated or compressed by the cervical bone spurs, resulting in movement and sensory disorders in the lower limbs.

Common complication 4: cervical heart disease. Symptoms include precordial pain, chest tightness, arrhythmia (such as cardiac arrest, etc.) and ST segment changes on the electrocardiogram, and it is easily misdiagnosed as coronary heart disease. This is caused by the stimulation and compression of the cervical nerve roots by cervical bone spurs.

So how do you exercise for cervical spondylosis? The following 4 types of exercise can effectively prevent and treat cervical spondylosis.

1. Brisk walking or jogging

A brisk walk or jog at a leisurely pace is an exercise that engages your whole body. Through rhythmic alternating muscle contraction and relaxation, the balance and coordination of the spinal joints are exercised and muscle endurance is improved. The oxygen supplied during jogging is 8 to 12 times more than that during sitting still. At the same time, jogging can make the human body produce a low-frequency vibration, which can exercise the vascular smooth muscles and thus increase the tension of the blood vessels. For people who work at a desk for a long time, it can effectively relieve muscle fatigue, improve local blood circulation, and relieve tension. For patients with cervical spondylosis, brisk walking should be more encouraged. Its effect is no worse than jogging, and the impact on the joints of the spine during exercise is much smaller than jogging.

2. Biking

Bicycles are a very common and convenient means of transportation in our country. People often use them to commute to get off work and for outings. Studies have shown that cycling, like running and swimming, is an endurance exercise that can improve cardiopulmonary function. It can also improve the agility of the nervous system, prevent brain aging, and exercise the muscles and ligaments of the three joints of the lower limbs, namely the hip, knee, and ankle, and the neck, back, arms, abdomen, waist, groin, and buttocks.

The action of riding a bicycle is to stretch both hands forward, shrug the shoulders, and raise the head and neck. This posture is exactly opposite to the working posture of most people. Normally, people need to lower their heads and bend their necks for a long time in front of the computer, which causes excessive tension and fatigue in the neck and back muscles, and is the cause of symptoms such as muscle stiffness and neck discomfort. However, riding a bike makes you tilt your head back, which has the opposite therapeutic effect. It stretches the muscles and ligaments that are usually tense and exercises the relaxed muscles. This is the key to preventing cervical spondylosis while cycling.

3. Swimming

When swimming, the human body comes into contact with sunlight, air and water, which is beneficial for promoting metabolism, dilating skin blood vessels and enhancing the body's disease resistance. Swimming is also a whole-body exercise. In addition to helping lose weight and shape the body, it can also prevent and treat cervical spondylosis. When swimming, because you need to breathe, you have to lift your neck up from the water so that your head is above the water to breathe. At the same time, you alternately extend your hands forward and paddle hard. Such movement will make the muscles in the neck and back work twice as hard, which is also an "abnormal movement state" that is opposite to the normal posture. Since the resistance of water is more than 20 times that of air, swimming is a very thorough exercise. It not only relieves the tension and discomfort of the neck muscles caused by the usual monotonous desk movements, but also speeds up blood circulation and relieves fatigue.

4. Flying a kite

The fitness and medical benefits of kite flying have been valued by people for a long time. When flying a kite, look up at the blue sky and watch the kite floating in the wind, swaying and tumbling among the blue sky and white clouds. This can adjust your vision, eliminate eye muscle fatigue and prevent myopia. In addition, kite flying is an activity that can prevent and treat cervical spondylosis.

When flying a kite, driven by interest, people should look up, raise their head and chest, look left and right, and move the kite in moderation. Flying kites regularly can maintain the muscle tension of the cervical spine and spinal column, maintain the elasticity of the ligaments and the flexibility of the vertebral joints, enhance bone metabolism, and strengthen the compensatory function of the cervical spine and spinal column. It will not damage the vertebral body, but can also prevent the degeneration of the vertebrae and ligaments. It can be said that flying kites is a "secret recipe" for preventing and treating cervical spondylosis.