Cervical

 

Cervical is anything related to neck but now a days in generic term, it is seen as a disease which influence people with desk jobs. Cervical pain can be felt mostly in neck, shoulder, hands and in young age it is mainly due to stiffness or reduced flexibility of muscles due to continuous siting job profiles, inactivity or wrong body posture.  It is the condition involving changes to the bones, discs, and joints of the neck.

 

Causes:

·         holding your neck in an uncomfortable position for long periods of time or iterating the same neck movements all over the day

·         overweight and inactive

·         work related activities that put additional strain on your neck from heavyweight lifting

 

Symptoms:

• a stiff or inflexible  neck that is painful in any movement
• headaches that occur most of the time in the backside of the head
• tingling sensation or numbness that mainly occurs in shoulders and arms, it can also affect the legs
• sleepless nights due to neck pain
• burning sensation in upper back muscles
• Indications that occur less frequently sometimes comprises of a loss of balance / control and a loss of bladder control.

How to avoid this situation:

 

These situation can be avoided proactively by the following measures:

·         The best possible thing is to be involved in any sports activity

·         Doing Yoga to keep your muscles flexible

·         Gyming, Swimming, running

·         If age is the constraint, then walking is the next to best activity.

·         Exercising at home, dancing, week-end activities are also good to avoid body flexibility loss.

Some dissimilar activities which seems weird but are accepted globally:

·         Tracking

·         Painting your house yourself

·         Cycling

·         Kick boxing

·         Weight Training

·         Aerobics

·         Martial arts

·         Travelling

·         Gardening