颈椎累了就扭一扭?千万别,可能丧命

Josh Hader's neck was bothering him - again. He'd been feeling the discomfort for a couple weeks and recently thought some light stretching could provide relief.

乔什·哈德尔的脖子又疼起来了。几个星期以来，他一直感到不舒服，最近他想做一些轻微的伸展运动，觉得这样可以缓解这种不适。

"I went to stretch it," the 28-year-old told The Washington Post, "and as I was using my hand to apply a little bit more pressure than I probably should have, I heard a pop."

这位28岁的小伙子在接受《华盛顿邮报》采访时表示:“我试着伸展脖子，当我用手施加的压力超过了我应该施加的压力时，我听到砰的一声。”

Less than an hour later, Hader would be in a hospital emergency room unable to walk and suffering from what doctors told him was a "major stroke" caused by a tear in an artery in his neck that had formed a clot.

不到一个小时后，哈德尔就进了医院的急诊室，无法行走，医生说他是“严重中风”，原因是脖子上的动脉撕裂，形成了血块。

"He could have died," Vance McCollom, a doctor at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City who treated Hader, told KOCO this week.

俄克拉荷马城慈善医院的医生，哈德尔的主治医师万斯·麦科洛姆(Vance McCollom)本周接受KOCO采访说：“他差点死了。”

McCollom said Hader had torn his vertebral artery, one of the major arteries in the neck that goes up into the brain.

McCollom说Hader已经撕裂了他的椎动脉，这是颈部的大动脉之一，它一直延伸到大脑。

A vertebral artery tear, or dissection, is known to cause strokes that can affect younger people in their 20s or 30s, and has nothing to do with a person's health, Kazuma Nakagawa, a stroke neurologist, told The Post.

中风神经学家Kazuma Nakagawa告诉《华盛顿邮报》，我们知道椎动脉撕裂或剥离能导致二三十岁的年轻人中风，这和他们的健康状况无关。

While it's rare for neck popping to lead to a tear, it's not unheard of, said Nakagawa, the medical director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu.

檀香山皇后医疗中心综合中风中心的医学主任中川说，虽然颈部爆裂导致撕裂的情况很少见，但也不是没有听说过。

"People just need to know that sudden neck pain can potentially be the starting point of a stroke," Nakagawa said.

中川说：“人们只需要知道，突然的颈部疼痛可能是中风的开始。”

Experts in the stroke community still do not know why some people's arteries tear while others don't, but they "have a hunch" that it may have something to do with the integrity of the blood vessels' walls differing from person to person, he said.

他说，中风研究领域的专家仍然不知道为什么有些人的动脉会撕裂，而有些人则不会，但他们“有一种预感”，这可能与人与人之间血管壁的完整性不同有关。

According to Nakagawa, "99.9 percent of the time you pop your neck and it's fine."

中川说：“99.9%的情况下，你扭脖子也不会怎么样。”

Hader, however, said his days of neck-popping are over.

然而，哈德尔说，他再也不会扭脖子了。

"I still wake up every once in a while with the urge, and I have to stop myself," he said. "It's still a struggle, but I definitely don't want to pop my neck anymore."

他说:“我仍然会偶尔醒来后有扭脖子的冲动，但我必须忍住。”“这仍然是一个挣扎，但我绝对不想再让脖子爆了。”