Diving in how to prevent cervical spine injury

Fitness is a kind of sports, especially one that includes unarmed or use instrument gymnastics, gymnastics can enhance strength, toughness, increase stamina and improve coordination, strengthen body parts of control ability, so as to keep fit, fitness, is to have the effect after a period of exercise, can get recognized.

Diving is a popular sports activities. However, beginners divers if diving when does not pay attention to safety, very easy occurrence cervical spine injury accident, thereby causing serious consequences, and even cause death.

Cervical spine injury mainly refers to the cervical fractures and dislocations, subluxation of local with five and six, cervical spine fracture dislocation and see more, when fracture often concurrent spinal cord injury, clinical symptom for limbs. 

According to some hospital statistics, the concurrent spinal cord injury ratio can reach up to about 50%, traumatic paraplegia could restore the half, mortality is also insufficient taller, can amount to 15-20%, if the department completeness paraplegia, the mortality rate is high.

Diving occurs mostly diving cervical spine injury caused by not method. For example, when starting platform jump out from Taiwan weakness, or gawk too close to enter the water, or gawk at the time of hip not unbend, or the entry Angle is too large, or into water impact is the swimmer's body, etc.

In addition, swimming pools, water too shallow (less than 2 meters) is one reason. If it is in rivers and lakes diving, bottom too shallow water, stone or a stake obstacles such as is the main reason of causing cervical spine injury. Every summer, diving head hit the bottom or obstacles, cause distortions caused head and neck with cervical spine fracture dislocation of the accidents occur frequently.

In order to prevent cervical spine injury accident on beginners divers, firstly, we must strengthen the safety education, emphasize diving and enter the water technology essentials, not in shallow pool or without understanding underwater circumstance of rivers and lakes diving.

Practice diving preparation before activities must fully, must the limbs, lumbar back, head and neck, joint fully activities open. In addition, rescue in the rush to salvage drowning or items when, should adopt feet tread water posture, don't take head high diving posture low enough to enter the water.

While rescuing patients with cervical spine injury, rescuers to AD cool-headed, in the ambulance process will try to forbid the patient's head, can't let it swings, also don't let the head and neck after song or hyperextension, more cannot optional massage, to prevent damage nerves.

Should the patient flat on the ground, such as difficulty breathing must immediately remove oral contents, keeping respiratory tract unobstructed, and impose artificial respiration and other emergency treatment. Handling cervical spine injury patients should choose wood stretcher, using scroll methods, the patient slowly rolled to board, and they should use both hands nestled patients with mandibular elevators and neck, 1980 far-fetched, maintain cervical extensor already but also but curved position.