Do you often do such things when you cross your legs and keep your head down in the sofa to brush your mobile phone?
In daily life, some casual little tricks are not friendly to health. Over time, the damage may become more obvious.
The following 7 actions are strongly not recommended by doctors, but many people do not care.
It’s time to give everyone a warning.
Crossing your legs-aggravating varicose veins of lower limbs
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, people with varicose veins of lower limbs should not cross their legs.
Because 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 you do this for a long time, the muscle strength will be unbalanced, which will easily lead to scoliosis and waist and back pain.
Recommendation:
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.
Sitting for a long time-swollen legs and feet, thrombosis of lower
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.
Have you ever had 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.
Recommendation:
Change a cup with a small volume to drink water, and when the water is finished, you will get up to pick up the water. This will not only exercise your muscles and bones, but also drink more water, killing two birds with one stone.
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, looking down at the mobile phone all the time 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.
Recommendation:
When using a mobile phone, relax your neck and don’t bow your head. It is better to raise your mobile phone to a height level with your eyes. It is also the same when reading and writing. Of course, it is best not to brush your mobile phone for a long time.
Bend over to Lift Heavy Objects-Injury to 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.
Recommendation:
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.
Climbing stairs and mountains frequently-hurting knees
Every time we go up the stairs, the cartilage surface of our knee joint will bear more than 4 times the pressure of our body weight.
Therefore, in the view of osteoarticular doctors, every time they climb stairs, they actually compress and wear the articular cartilage surface of the knee. You know, articular cartilage has no blood supply and is difficult to repair after being damaged.
Think about it, is it that people who work more when they are young and do not pay attention to the correct use of their knees are more prone to knee joint pain and degeneration when they get older?
Recommendation:
Friends with relatively good knee joint stability need not worry too much about climbing the stairs as long as they do not climb too much.
However, friends who are heavier or older and already have knee joint pain and degeneration should try their best to avoid climbing stairs, let alone mountains.
If you want to exercise, it is recommended to choose fast walking, swimming, Taijiquan and other events, which will not be too heavy on your knees. In addition, it is also necessary to choose a pair of stable sports shoes with good cushioning performance.
Sleeping on your stomach-compressing local nerves and eyeballs
During lunch break, some people are used to lying directly on the table and sleeping with their heads and arms on their heads.
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.
Recommendation:
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.
Long-term 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.
As mentioned earlier, sedentary sitting is not good, and sedentary sitting on the toilet is even more harmful.
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.
Recommendation:
The time of defecation should be controlled within 3 to 5 minutes as far as possible. If there is constipation, it should be handled and solved in time. It is best not to bring books and mobile phones into the toilet.
Seemingly small actions in daily life may be closely related to health.
In contrast, do you have the above 7 bad habits? If there is nothing, give a warning; If there is something, change it as soon as possible.
I hope you are healthy and comfortable!