“10 office workers, 9 cervical vertebra pain.” With the change of life and work style, people spend more and more sedentary time, and the incidence of cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, sciatica and other diseases increases with increased and showed a younger trend. In 2019, the “Occupational Health Protection Action” listed cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, low back pain, bone hyperplasia, and sciatica as diseases that workers should prevent. For people with insufficient exercise time, poor posture and physical discomfort often form a vicious circle. In this episode, Professor Liu Xiangyun of Shanghai Institute of Physical Education explains in detail how to relieve shoulder and neck pain.
After using the screen for a long time, switching back and forth between the mobile phone and the computer, does your cervical spine make a sound when you turn your head? Experts say that maintaining a bad posture for a long time can cause spasms in the muscles of the shoulder and neck, leading to shoulder and neck pain. A lot of tutorials will let you stretch the trapezius, but that doesn’t solve the whole problem. There are many muscles in the neck. Only when the front and back of the neck and the muscle groups that help us rotate the head are effectively stretched, shoulder and neck pain can be effectively relieved. One chair, three training exercises, let’s work together to improve cervical discomfort!
Source/CCTV
Editor/Yang Yanhui