Simple Tips for Keeping Your Neck & Back Healthy

1
(No Transcript)
2
3 Surprisingly Simple Tips for Keeping Your Neck
Back Healthy

• Neck and back account for more than 85 of the
  problems in adults, after age 30.
• From that mild annoying ache to severe
  debilitating pain, the scale of severity can vary
  from individual to individual but no one truly
  escapes from this fact of life.
• Most people experience back pain on regular
  basis postage 40.
• Due to lack of exercise and postural problems
  back, pain tends to show up in individuals in
  their 30s too. says the top orthopaedic spine
  specialist in UK Dr Jwalant S Mehta.

3
3 Surprisingly Simple Tips for Keeping Your Neck
Back Healthy

• It is common for the back and neck to get stiff
  and aches as we age.
• However, they are showing up earlier than
  expected in todays adults which is mostly due to
  bad postural habits, inactivity and poor
  lifestyle choices.
• Due to a variety of these factors, the spine and
  ages tend to age quite quickly showing up
  stiffness, creakiness, aches, strains and
  tightness that may last days or weeks without
  adequate treatment.
• Fortunately, we all can keep our necks and back
  healthy and significantly delay their onset by
  following a few simple tips below
• 
  

4
3 Surprisingly Simple Tips for Keeping Your Neck
Back Healthy

• Move More Sitting for prolonged periods of time
  without a break is one of the major causes of
  back pain in the current generation.
• Static sitting postures increase the stress on
  the neck, and back.
• Legs and arms put significant pressure on spinal
  discs and back muscles.
• Naturally, we tend to slouch around in a sitting
  position and this overstretches ligaments in the
  spine and further strains the spinal discs.

5
3 Surprisingly Simple Tips for Keeping Your Neck
Back Healthy

• Always try to stand, stretch and walk for every
  half an hour of prolonged sitting to loosen the
  ligaments, tendons, and joints to cut the
  damage, suggest back pain specialist and
  orthopaedic spine surgeon, Mr Jwalant S Mehta.
• 2. Maintain a good posturePosture is another
  silent cause of back and neck problems that most
  people ignore.
• Two things that stop people from adopting good
  postures are a) lack of the right knowledge about
  the right posture and b) Inability to hold the
  said posture for long.
• However, we aim to solve both cases right now.
  Lets start with the simplified ideal posture
  routine

6
3 Surprisingly Simple Tips for Keeping Your Neck
Back Healthy

• 3. Sit tall on your chair with your head over the
  shoulders and the chin at a 90-deg angle.
• Keep your neck straight, and draw your shoulders
  back and down onto your spine while
• you pop your lower belly and chest slightly
  out.
• Hold these for 3 sets of 30 seconds each and
  repeat the same every hour to slowly adapt to
  your routine.
• You can slightly stretch your neck side wards
  for 20-30 secs to relax the neck and ease the
  tension.

7
3 Surprisingly Simple Tips for Keeping Your Neck
Back Healthy

• 4. It may not be possible to hold an amazing
  posture all day and it is totally fine that way.
• But be more mindful about the posture and correct
  it when you seem to fall back on past habits.
• 5. Treat your neck kindly and avoid tech-neckThe
  neck that bends forward and stays for prolonged
  periods of time is the leading cause of neck
  stiffness poor posture, neck spasms and even
  headaches.
• Tech-neck as it is called now is rampant in the
  younger generation who spent all their time on a
  computer or mobile phone with the neck bent
  downwards.

8
3 Surprisingly Simple Tips for Keeping Your Neck
Back Healthy

• Every 15 degrees of bent neck doubles the stress
  put on the neck and at 45-degree, the neck has to
  bear almost a 50-pound strain which further
  aggravates the neck and back.
• This additional pressure strains the disc more
  wearing them out and increasing the disk rupture.
• One can alleviate these symptoms is to breaking
  this cycle by moving more we have already
  discussed this above.
• The second way to ease pressure is to sit in a
  25-30 degree recline position with good lumbar
  support to cut down the pressure on the spine.
• So in consolidation sit in a reclined position
  with good lumbar support, chin at 90-deg and
  chest out and shoulders backed down.

9
3 Surprisingly Simple Tips for Keeping Your Neck
Back Healthy

• That said, back and neck pain may also be due to
  inherent spinal problems that need treatment
  right away.
• If you have already been adopting the above
  suggestions but are still experiencing neck and
  back pain then it is highly advisable to consult
  an expert orthopaedic spine specialist in the UK.

10
Contact us

• Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
• BMI The Priory Hospital
• Spire Parkway Hospital
• Bromsgrove Private Clinic
• Birmingham Childrens Hospital

11
Contact and Connect

• Clinical secretary Samantha Leavy 44 785 021
  1939
• Medico-legal secretary Jan Clarke 44 121
  4508928
• Spire Parkway Hospital 0121 704 5500
• BMI NEC (National Enquiry Centre) 0808 101 0337
• BMI Priory 0121 446 1638
• Email secretary_at_mehtaspine.co.uk
• The appointments are booked through the clinic