Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Cervical exercise in elderly

Cervical disease to people's lives, bring a lot of inconvenience to the hospital for patients in treatment (massage, traction, medication, physiotherapy, etc.) should also be functional training for medical gymnastics.
Because of medical gymnastics in strengthening the neck muscles and restore function of head and neck has an important role in the activities, at the same time improve local blood circulation, eliminate obvious effect of soft tissue injury. Here are a set of head and neck medical gymnastics. A, seating, turning the head, from right to left, and from left to right, slowly. Second, sitting, forehead, chin to chest, head back, look up at the top. 3, seat, head right position to turn left, look up at the top left; head left to the right place, look up at the top right. 4, seat, his head easily spin around slowly.
5, seat, shrugging, so with the ear close to the initial left and right shoulder were done at the same time after doing shoulders. Medical gymnastics is primarily for head movement in several directions, focusing on doing the first backward and turn around, a day for 3 to 4 times 10 to 15 minutes. Action to slow and steady, not rapid force in order not to cause significant pain for the degree (to allow the muscles involved with flu and slight discomfort), when the turn (or bend) to the most significant, they can pause a moment in the position to fully stretch shortened muscles and ligaments, and muscles through static exercise and be strengthened.

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