Women's neck and shoulder fatigue is actually due to excessive abdominal fat
2024-03-05
43 year old Ms. Liu feels exhausted around her neck and shoulders as if she is carrying a big mountain all day, due to excessive abdominal fat. Ms. Liu is overweight and does not exercise regularly. Due to work reasons, she often sits for long periods of time and feels stiff and fatigued at the neck and back. Therefore, she often performs local massage to relieve the discomfort. This year's Spring Festival, she took advantage of her rare vacation to go outdoors and play. However, she found that even if she just walked empty handed, she felt like her back was pressing against a big mountain before long. She stopped walking for less than an hour before feeling sore, painful, and heavy in her neck and back, and she was completely exhausted. After returning home, she quickly went to the massage parlor for a massage, but the feeling of fatigue did not ease this time. After resting for a few days, she couldn't shake off the "big mountain" on her back. On February 28th, Ms. Liu went to the Rehabilitation Department of Donghu Hospital in Wuhan for treatment. After receiving the treatment, attending physician Chen Xiangfeng found that Ms. Liu's abdominal relaxation, fat accumulation, and body pain and fatigue were all caused by the weak strength of the core abdominal muscles, which increased the burden on her shoulders. Chen Xiangfeng introduced that the core muscle group refers to an important muscle group located around the body in the front and back of the abdomen, responsible for maintaining spinal stability, including the transverse abdominis, pelvic floor muscles, and lower back muscles, which play a stabilizing role in the human spine during daily activities. When the human body undergoes running, jumping, walking, and strength training, its effect becomes more pronounced and more prominent. If there is a long-term lack of exercise and the abdominal strength is too weak, it will lead to insufficient support in the abdomen, which will increase the stress on the shoulders. Over time, this can easily increase the burden on the shoulders, causing discomfort symptoms such as pain or soreness in the shoulders. Chen Xiangfeng suggests that if the strength of the core muscle group is relatively weak, the human body is prone to pelvic tilt when maintaining a sitting position, walking, or engaging in various sports. If this problem is not corrected in time, it can also easily lead to adverse postures such as chest hunchback, lumbar curvature, scoliosis, high and low shoulders, etc; When the strength of the core muscle group is too weak, the spine cannot be bound by the muscles, which can lead to instability of the spine, resulting in displacement, straightening of physiological curvature, and disorder of spinal joints; Abdominal weakness can involuntarily increase the load on the waist, causing the back, especially the lower back, to be in a very tense state. Over time, serious consequences such as lumbar protrusion or intervertebral disc herniation may occur. Chen Xiangfeng also emphasized that core muscle groups play a crucial role in human movement. Through core muscle group training, core stability can be enhanced, exercise performance can be improved, posture and posture can be improved, injury prevention can be prevented, daily life functions can be enhanced, and metabolism and fat burning effects can be improved. It is recommended to exercise the core abdominal muscles from the following three aspects, which can not only improve the body shape but also gain more health: 1. In daily life, whether walking or sitting, consciously tighten the abdomen, which can use the strength of the abdominal core, especially when walking, it will to some extent reduce the stress on the waist. 2. By training the local movement of the core muscle group, it can reduce fat accumulation, enhance the muscle endurance of the core muscle group, help the core muscle group support the upper body more effectively, and achieve the goal of improving posture. The core abdominal training methods usually include squats, sit ups, plank supports, abdominal rolls, supine leg lifts, lateral leg lifts, etc. notes
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