Everything About Mushroom Neck Syndrome / Buffalo Hump / Nape Callus (Surgical Treatment)

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Hello. This is Dr. Cho Young-min.

Today I would like to talk about a somewhat different treatment, other than lifting.

Among the people around you, those with a lump-like bulge sticking out at the back of the neck

Have you ever seen this?

In the picture, you can see that the area where the neck and back connect protrudes.

It is called by various names such as buffalo hump, mushroom neck, dowager's hump, and nape callus.

even in healthy people without any systemic metabolic disease,

there can be cases where it protrudes like that,

The reason such a lump develops is

The conclusion is that it is caused by pressure from the 7th cervical vertebra.

Then... what on earth is that lump??

Muscle? Fat?

The area where buffalo hump / dowager's hump / mushroom neck / nape callus occurs

Anatomically, it corresponds to the upper part of the trapezius muscle.

But the area where the lump forms

No matter how well developed a person's muscles are,

you can see that it is not enlarged. Therefore, it is not muscle.

The identity of that mass is

the fatty tissue, due to external stimulus (pressure from the spinous process of the 7th cervical vertebra),

It is in a state of enlargement after excessive fibrosis.

Earlier, I explained that it is caused by the spinous process of the 7th cervical vertebra pressing on the tissue.

A bone that sits still compressing my own tissue?!! That can't be, right :)

If you keep a slouched posture for a long time in daily life,

the spinous process of the 7th cervical vertebra ends up poking the tissue above it.

Just as pressure from the outside forms calluses on the skin of our hands and soles,

Pressure applied from the inside causes excessive fibrosis of the soft tissue.

In the end, poor everyday posture is the heart of the problem.

As you can see from the name "dowager's hump,"

It is common in women in their 50s and older.

a term originating from China, in middle-aged women of a somewhat wealthy class

it is said to have been given this name because it occurs often,

making the servants do all the work while sitting in a chair,

If you think of how someone fiddles with a cat,

It is not very different from the posture modern people take when looking at a smartphone.

Each time the angle of the head bends by 15 degrees,

the force needed to support the head is said to increase several times over.....

On top of that, since much of the work at the workplace is done on a PC,

It seems that it will inevitably occur more often in modern people.

Perhaps because of that,

This condition, common among middle-aged women,

These days, it is also developing in people in their 20s and 30s.

Since it is a condition caused by posture,

Posture correction comes first.

Keeping the spine upright and avoiding a slouched posture.

balancing the muscles around the neck and shoulders and

maintaining a correct posture.

Having already undergone severe deformation,

When mushroom neck / buffalo hump / nape callus has progressed considerably,

Because it is even hard to tilt the head back,

you cannot even begin posture correction.

In such cases, with the help of a procedure,

After first removing the lump as much as possible,

Proper posture correction is the right way to go :)

As for posture correction,

Because experts explain it on various channels such as blogs and YouTube,

I will omit it from this article.

The soft tissue in that area is already not ordinary fat, but

Because it is fat that has hardened and changed shape,

it is difficult to treat with ordinary liposuction.

Moreover, liposuction can damage the skin over the lump, causing adhesions,

since it could also injure the trapezius muscle beneath the lump,

because it may cause even greater damage to tissue that is already worn out.

Therefore,

that selectively removes only the transformed fat layer (including hyperfibrotic tissue)

Ultrasonic fat removal (a.k.a. buffalo contouring) is the most suitable treatment.

filling the fatty tissue with water mixed with anesthetic solution, and

If you bring the ultrasound probe closer,

only the fat can be selectively broken down.

After first removing the lump,

Through proper posture correction, the pressure from the 7th cervical vertebra

Treatment is complete only when the tissue is no longer under pressure.

Walking around with this lump is, visibly, a cosmetic problem.

because it does not look good and clothes do not fit well even when you wear them.

In fact, there is a bigger problem than the cosmetic one.

If a lump made of hardened, clumped soft tissue is left alone,

unnecessary pressure is put on the neck, back, and shoulders around the lump, and

that the surrounding muscles are put in a stressful situation of excessive tension or overextension.

If it persists, not only chronic neck, back, and shoulder pain and extreme fatigue, but

since posture will get worse in proportion to the size of the lump,

a cervical disc problem develops, and because of the resulting load on the thoracic and lumbar spine,

the entire spine can be damaged.

If the size is very small, posture correction alone can improve it considerably, but

to the point of already limiting the normal range of motion of the body,

If the lump is large,

I strongly recommend having it removed as soon as possible.

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