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【老外说】是一档以“采访”老外为主的节目，帮助大家更好的了解中西文化差异，一窥英国人、美国人日常生活。每周一更新。本栏目适合精听/泛听。可做听写练习。 上班族久坐是个大问题，我们都知道久坐对腰椎颈椎伤害很大，那要怎么应对呢？今天这位美国人也有腰间盘突出的问题，我们一起来听她聊聊她是怎么做的吧！ I actually have damage in my spine. We call it a slipped disc (椎间盘突出) or a bulging (鼓起的) disc. So I have to be very careful or else I will be in excruciating pain. And I can only lay down.   Gwen  That's quite the same as I used to have. I used to have that. And I used to have problems with my neck, but I'm getting better. I've been swimming, actually. I've been doing some exercise, you know, some weights at the gym and I turn better. But still, you have to pay more attention to the neck and the spine. Yes. The number one thing for me is not sitting for extended periods of time. So I totally get the airplane thing. If I’m on a longer flight, I have to get up and I have to walk around. And sometimes when I felt too embarrassed, I’ll just go to the bathroom and stretch in the bathroom rather than in the middle of the plane.  Gwen Stretching is really helpful? Yes. Particular stretches, because…where my injury is, if I put a certain pressure on it, it will cause excruciating pain. But if I do the right sort of stretches, it releases the muscles that are near there and kind of relax of everything. And it took a bit of talking to my doctor and doing some research to find out what I can do and what I should not do. And the doctor I was going to was a chiropractor (手疗法医师). Have you heard of them?  Gwen No? Their goal is to adjust…it's basically like adjusting your spine, adjusting the arrangement of your bones by moving your body. And mostly it's just like, in a way, it’s where the muscles are holding the bones and get the muscles to relax, and the bones go back to where they're supposed to go, like they adjust your body to adjust the position. That's the word I'm looking for. The position of the bones. And then it's up to you to do the work for your body so that your muscles then hold the bones in the correct base. Gwen  So you're stretching and with the doctor's moving positions, you combine these two, and in the end, it helps with your spine position. Oh, yeah. Because if I only go to the doctor, then every time I have to go back. But if I’m doing the stretches, I can go months, and months, and months without needing to see the doctor. Gwen So about the stretching... do you follow some apps or do you just learn them from the doctor? It’s kind of a combination of learning from the doctor, doing my own research to know which ones to really avoid. And then knowing that when I do certain yoga positions is helpful or it causes pain. And then that tells me to do more of the ones that are helpful and not do the ones that cause pain. So a little bit of trial and error and a little bit of instruction. Every morning, it’s more like ten to fifteen minutes of what my doctor has told me to do, or yoga…sequence that does the same thing as what my doctor told me to do. Now I can also tell you, I don't have an issue particularly with my neck, but sometimes it would be tight and sore from being on the computer too much. And doing yoga, I stopped having that pain in my neck. Gwen Yeah, I also have this neck and spine problem as I said, and I think over ten people overall have advised me to do this yoga thing. Well, I've never tried it. You know, I’m more of a weights person (喜欢举铁的人) instead of this yoga... Yeah, I should try this. Yeah, I really recommend, if you've never done it before to go to a class, so the teacher can look at you and a lot of times the teacher will come and tell you moved here moved there so that you're actually doing the right movement. Gwen I know that at the gym there are yoga courses, but it's a little bit time-consuming (费时的). Every time the course would last for over an hour. Well, if I had that time at the gym, I would rather do the treadmill, and that would consume some more calories. Some yoga you do, and the next day all your muscles still sore. You were sweating when you laughed. It depends on the type of yoga. All in all, I do recommend, even if you're not going every week to the same class, at least go once to a class to have that instructor that's watching you as you're moving and then you can do whatever you want because then you have learned what's the right way to stand in this position. Gwen So apart from this yoga, do you do other types of exercise like treadmill or… No, not really. But one of the reasons I wanted to move and be somewhere in Europe, and to be in a city, is because I can walk everywhere. I know other people that take the metro but for me, if it's less than twenty minutes I will just walk, and I get a lot of exercise from just using my two feet to go to the grocery store to go wherever. Because when I was in the United States, oh my goodness, you can't go anywhere on your feet. I mean, you walk five seconds to your car, drive 30 minutes, and then walk a minute into the store. Gwen It's too far away, right? Every two directions. Yeah, everywhere is too far away, and very few places have sidewalks even. It’s just not meant for people to walk now. Gwen That's what I've heard. America is a country on the wheels. That's a good way of putting it. 上班族群一天少则八小时，多则十几小时不等的电脑前椅子上的久坐时间。时不时得做一下拉伸很有必要！除此之外，还要格外注意自己的坐姿哟，不良坐姿千万种，但带来的结果大多都是肌肉力量不平衡、肩颈不适、韧带关节磨损！ 大家还想听“老外”说些什么？欢迎留言哦 -等你很久啦！- |
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