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Incorrect posture can lead to cervical back pain

In recent years, studies found that people are getting younger and younger having cervical degradation. During the summer, clinic received patients under the age of 20 with cervical degenerative increase up to 20 cases, it jump to three times than last year, youngest patients only is a few years old. Doctors believe that the situation of young people in recent years, prolonged use or incorrect posture, such as lowering the head in front of the laptop or mobile phone screen, back arch and leaning forward, can cause cervical headaches, and even cause early cervical joint degeneration.

 

Young people like reading books, walking, doing homework are habits that use to bring the head in a forward position. Over a year neck and shoulder pain began, when time for school examination, neck pain become more severe, after seeking medical advice then find out in the childhood over cumulate nerve compression in the neck loosing its flexibility, the pain in the neck are so severe some cases that can cause children not able to look up at the blackboard for a long time or lower the head to study.

 

Chiropractic doctor explained, cervical support the weight of the head area, prolonged use of mobile phones and laptop, and sitting incorrect posture, can cause cervical dislocation, curvature variation, the formation of bone spurs proliferation, if the bone spurs give too much pressure to the nerves, can cause headache, numbness and muscle stiffness and other symptoms. Young children are developing, if early treatment can help reply to the cervical spine mobility. Doctors advice patients to do daily stretching exercises and basic muscle movement, and to maintain the correct posture when using electronic products, such as sitting down when using the computer, keep elbows, hips and knees maintain in 90 degrees angle, every 1 hour should have a short stretch exercise to the shoulder area, let the eyes look far away, so as to effectively prevent cervical headaches and prevent recurrence.

 

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