What is the stiff neck? What should I do if I often get stiff neck?

In late autumn, the weather is getting colder. Many people catch cold in their necks when they sleep, and suddenly wake up in the morning to find uncomfortable symptoms such as neck pain and stiffness, which is caused by "stiff neck". It is easy to induce stiff neck due to improper sleeping posture, prolonged stretching of neck muscles, cold neck and other reasons.

If you are overworked for a long time, fatigue will lead to physical emptiness. At the same time, every night, the human body's yang gradually declines and the yin gradually flourishes. If you don't pay attention to keep warm when you sleep at night, it is easy to be blocked by evil spirits, leading to stiff neck. Generally speaking, if you occasionally have a stiff neck once or twice in a month, there is no need to worry too much. Just change the way you work at your desk for a long time and increase the amount of exercise appropriately. In addition, in daily life, often using hot towels to compress the neck will also promote local circulation and effectively prevent stiff neck.

If you have stiff neck more than three times in a month, or even have frequent attacks, you should pay close attention. Because of frequent stiff neck, it may be related to excessive blood stasis in the human body. At this point, we must find the cause from the cervical vertebra. Clinical statistics show that patients with stiff neck are mostly related to overdraft caused by long-term desk work every day and lead to qi deficiency. Chinese medicine believes that "qi handsome is blood". When qi can't promote blood circulation, the neck will feel cold evil, which will inevitably lead to stiff neck. Therefore, in addition to stiff neck, such patients are often accompanied by symptoms of qi deficiency such as mental fatigue, inattention, fatigue, dizziness and poor memory. For patients with qi deficiency, in addition to receiving regular Chinese medicine treatment and physical therapy, it is best to take it for conditioning. Chinese herbal medicines such as Radix Codonopsis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Corydalis, Rhizoma Chuanxiong and Semen Persicae can be used to invigorate qi, promote blood circulation and strengthen the body, so that the effect of invigorating qi will be better.

To prevent stiff neck, besides invigorating qi, you should also pay attention to choosing the right pillow when sleeping. According to people's physiological characteristics, the pillow should be between 10 cm and 15 cm, not too high, not too low and not too hard. You can also add related traditional Chinese medicines, such as licorice and angelica, to promote blood circulation in the neck and help prevent stiff neck. Cover the neck with a quilt when sleeping, so as to avoid neck muscle spasm caused by long-term cold and stiff neck. In diet, eat more bone soup, milk and fresh vegetables, and supplement the calcium and vitamins needed by the human body, which will help to keep the neck healthy. For people who work at their desks for a long time, sedentary and less physical exercise are not conducive to neck health care. Therefore, office workers who sit in front of the computer for a long time should especially raise their heads and exercise their necks to prevent chronic strain of neck muscles and help reduce stiff neck.