For today, therapeutic gymnastics with cervical osteochondrosis is one of the most demanded gymnastics for back treatment, because, due to sedentary study and work, not only adults and the elderly, but also children began to suffer such ailment. Schoolchildren, programmers, writers, and office employees are at risk.
Treatment of cervical osteochondrosis and gymnastics
Despite the widest spread of this disease, there is still no real way to get rid of the disease. But after all, not only the spine suffers from osteochondrosis , but also the central nervous system, spinal cord, vessels, including the vertebral artery, which delivers blood to the brain.
Treatment of cervical osteochondrosis with gymnastics has long been recognized as one of the best ways to combat such an ailment. As a result, you will achieve the following results:
- eliminate the hypodynamia, which is the cause of your illness;
- eliminate stagnant phenomena in the muscles of the neck;
- ease your health, remove headache and discomfort in the neck;
- prevent complications;
- improve your overall health;
- relax the neck muscles, which in this case are strained chronically;
- improve local blood circulation;
- improve metabolic processes throughout the body;
- improve cerebral blood flow.
Usually it is recommended to perform gymnastics as for cervicothoracic osteochondrosis, since these two zones are connected together. Do not be lazy to perform additional exercises - they can ease your pain.
Osteochondrosis of the cervical section: features of therapeutic gymnastics
This gymnastics is not much different from other types of gymnastics. In this case, too, all movements should be performed smoothly, smoothly, without jerking. Movements are made from standard positions - standing, sitting or lying down. Despite the fact that in the standing position it is easier to perform certain elements, the lying position allows to reduce the unnecessary load on the neck and relax it.
After a week of regular classes you will notice improvements and at this point it is important not to give up training, but to continue them to achieve even greater success.
Osteochondrosis of the cervical spine: gymnastics
To perform such exercises, you need to find time each day. The complex is rather small and does not take much time.
- Sitting, palms on the forehead, the head is fixed. Press your hands on your forehead for a few seconds. Then press on the back of the head. Then - alternately on the sides, near the ears. This will strengthen the muscular framework.
- Sit back your head back on exhalation, and on inspiration - tilt forward. With the turn of the head, touch the chin of the right and left shoulder. Then stretch your ears to the shoulders of the maximum inclination of the head.
- Lying on his back, under his head is a pillow. The head presses on the pillow, then it needs to be lifted and held for a few seconds. Return to the starting position and pull your knees to your stomach, wrapping them around your hands. Drag your forehead to your knees. Return to the starting position. Then bend your knees, spread your arms and rotate your body 5 times in each direction.
- Lying on your stomach face down, turn your head and touch the floor with your ears. Then lift your head up. Then lift the head at the same time as the shoulder girdle. Repeat 5 times.
Remember, cervical osteochondrosis and therapeutic gymnastics - things inseparable from each other! Only by performing such simple exercises, you can help yourself to return to normal life and not "run the disease," but to defeat it, or at least reduce its negative impact on the body.