What are the benefits of swimming for the cervical spine?

Swimming is a very fascinating sport. It can show our perfect body to the maximum extent, and at the same time, it can also exercise our beautiful lines, especially it can help us eliminate a lot of body fat, whether it is the legs, waist or arms. What I want to say today is that swimming can not only exercise the body, but also has great benefits for our cervical spine. Let’s find out together.

Experts believe that swimming is a whole-body exercise. When people swim, the muscles of their upper limbs, neck, shoulders, back, abdomen and lower limbs are all involved in the exercise. This improves blood circulation to muscles throughout the body.

Moreover, when people paddle in the water, the friction and pressure generated by the water on the human body can have a good massage effect on the muscles of various parts of the human body. This can also promote blood circulation in the skin and muscles and enhance cell metabolism. In addition, when people swim, they use their upper limbs to paddle vigorously, which can move the shoulder joints and back muscles, and the action of tilting the head back to inhale can move the cervical vertebrae joints. Moreover, raising your head to breathe and lowering your head to work are two opposite movements, which can promote the repair of strained muscles and ligaments. From this we can see that it makes sense that swimming can cure cervical spondylosis.

Of course, people who have difficulty moving their limbs or suffer from serious heart, brain, or lung diseases cannot use swimming to treat cervical spondylosis. First of all, swimming is different from our usual exercises. It is the only exercise in which the body is parallel to the ground. It can improve the body's blood circulation, metabolism, sense of balance, flexibility, etc.; secondly, the amount of swimming exercise is achieved through the distance you swim.

It causes the least damage to joints and muscles. Most people feel tiring swimming because they have not really mastered the swimming posture. Thirdly, under the action of water force, it has a better corrective effect on our body, which is impossible to achieve with other sports. I often train adults to swim, and I have helped no less than ten people with cervical and lumbar problems to significantly improve their symptoms! Don't be impatient at the beginning, take it step by step, and persist!

After reading the information about the benefits of swimming, I was really surprised. More importantly, swimming can really relieve the pain in the cervical spine. Swimming regularly is a good exercise for the cervical spine. Did you all see it? Some friends with cervical spondylosis can try to learn swimming to relieve the discomfort caused by cervical pain.