All of us watching on a cell phone for longtime a day , consequence in high pressure on our neck and shoulder muscles ,and eventually may get a forward head posture .
So , Is forward head posture a cause of dementia ?
In this video , Dr. Hauser discusses the importance of correcting forward head posture before it’s too late and leads to brain atrophy. We hope that you will put some positive changes into action in your own life to help your neck curve and brain health.
“The arterial supply needs to go up so that’s one problem then the brain can’t drain well all this cellular waste it can’t get out of the brain so what’s going to happen the pressure inside the brain is going to go up and the pressure eventually causes the neuron cells to die when the neuron cells to die .We call that brain degeneration or brain atrophy and long term that does what your memory starts going and eventually a person can get diagnosed with alzheimer’s .I ‘m not saying all alzheimer’s diseases from this.”
What is blocked in the neck meridian
In Chinese Medicine theory , Qi ,the viral energy in the neck meridian are blocked when there is muscle imbalance occurs at the neck in a long term abnormal postition.
In this meridian chart , we can see two yellow line , which is DU meridian 督脈 and GB meridian 膽經 , and the black line , called UB meridian 膀胱經 pass through from the neck to the brain .
All this meridian bring Qi from different organs ,containing many nutrients supply to the brain to maintain daily usage of the brain activity.
In the nutshell, not just blood supply is impacted , the Qi movement and supply is blocked from forehead posture .This is the reason why as a Chinese medicine doctor , my treatment to dementia or any brain damage patients emphasis on the neck area.
There are many acupoint on that three meridians mentioned above that is so important ,like 風府穴 DU16 , and 風池穴 GB20.
We will discuss this topic in the next article .
Dementia ,TCM and Acupuncture 