Do you often do such things when you cross your legs, nest in the sofa and brush your mobile phone with your head down?
In daily life, these subconscious little tricks are actually not friendly to health. Over time, these damages accumulate over time and may become more obvious or even irreversible.
The following six actions are strongly not recommended by doctors, but many people do not care.
Check and see if there are you.
Prolonged defecation: anal disease
Now it is widely used to sit on the toilet, and the legs are more relaxed. If there is another mobile phone or an attractive book, some people can sit on the toilet for a long time.
Everyone knows that sedentary sitting is not good, and sedentary sitting on the toilet is even worse.
Stool time is long, abdominal pressure is high, and rectal cavity is always in a state of high pressure, which is easy to cause a structure called [anal pad] to move down, causing hemorrhoids, rectocele, anal fissure, etc.
* Tips:
The defecation time should be controlled within 3 to 5 minutes as far as possible. Constipation problems should be dealt with and solved in time.
It is better not to bring books and cell phones into the toilet.
Bow Your Head to Play with Mobile Phone: Injury to Cervical
When a person does not bow his head, his neck only needs to bear the weight of his head (about 4 ~ 5kg), which is very easy.
When a person bows his head-
When the head is lowered by 15 degrees: the cervical spine will bear about 12kg of pressure.
When the head is lowered by 30 degrees: the cervical spine will bear about 18kg of pressure.
When the head is lowered by 60 degrees: the cervical spine will bear about 22 kilograms of pressure.
The cervical spine under physiological conditions has a slightly forward physiological radian.
However, always looking down at the mobile phone will straighten the cervical spine, lose [curvaceous], and make the muscles in the front and back of the neck flexing and stretching excessively.
Over time, neck pain, shoulder pain, arm pain… All kinds of pain can be found.
* Tips:
When using the mobile phone, relax your neck and don’t bow your head. It is better to raise the mobile phone to a height level with your eyes, and the same is true when reading and writing.
Of course, it is best not to brush your cell phone for a long time.
Sleeping on your stomach: Compressing local nerves and eyeballs
Some people are used to lying directly on the table and sleeping with their heads and arms on their heads during lunch break.
This sleeping posture will lead to numbness and soreness of hands and faces. Over time, it may also cause local nerve paralysis. Moreover, this movement will also compress the eyeballs and affect breathing.
* Tips:
If conditions permit, lie on the bed or sofa or couch to sleep.
Without these conditions, you can close your eyes and lean on the office chair for a while.
If you must sleep on your stomach, you’d better put a softer pillow on it and free your arms and face at the same time. The U-shaped neck pillow on the market now is also a good choice.
Sedentary: swollen legs and feet, thrombosis of lower limbs
The 2016 edition of the American Diabetes Association’s guidelines clearly states:
Everyone should reduce sedentary time, especially avoid sitting for more than 90 minutes.
Do you have the habit of sitting on the sofa watching TV and brushing your cell phone for an hour or two? A study shows that:
People who sit and watch TV for 1-2 hours a day are 9.2% more likely to develop diabetes than people who watch TV for less than 1 hour.
In addition, sedentary sitting is also easy to lead to swelling of legs and feet, thrombosis of lower limbs and accelerated spinal aging.
Sitting for a long time is harmful. The best way is to exercise more. It is best to get up every half hour for activities.
* Tips:
Change a cup with a small volume to drink water. When the water is finished, you will get up to pick up the water.
In this way, you can not only exercise your muscles and bones, but also drink more water, killing two birds with one stone.
Crossing your legs: Compressing local veins
For healthy adults, crossing their legs will not seriously affect their health. As a way to maintain a comfortable sitting posture, there is no problem.
It does not cause hypertension, and there is no evidence to prove that crossing legs will affect the health of male and female reproductive systems.
However, this action will compress the local veins, making the poor blood return more serious, thus causing distending pain in the lower leg.
In addition, crossing your legs may cause waist and back discomfort.
You think this posture will make the pelvis rotate and the hip joint tense. If the muscle strength is unbalanced for a long time, it will easily cause scoliosis and waist and back pain.
* Tips:
People who already have varicose veins of lower limbs, discomfort of waist and back, deep vein thrombosis and other problems should not cross their legs.
Bend over to lift heavy objects: hurt lumbar spine
When a person bends down to carry heavy objects, the pressure on the waist will be more than twice that of normal standing. After a long time, the lumbar spine can’t stand it.
In addition to bending over to lift heavy objects and carrying heavy objects with one hand, incorrect sitting posture is also a common cause of lumbago. Wrong posture will make lumbar spine and muscles excessively pulled and squeezed, which is very uncomfortable.
* Tips
No matter moving the box or picking up the paper on the ground, it is not recommended to bend down directly, but to use the action of straightening the waist, squatting down and picking up again.
At ordinary times, you should also pay attention to your sitting posture.