Cervical stenosis, or narrowing of the cervical spinal canal, reduces the effective space and blood supply to the spinal cord and nerves, thus causing dysfunction that can lead to hand numbness. The main treatments are general treatment, physical therapy, medication and surgery.
1. General treatment: in daily life, we must avoid working with head down for a long time, avoid reading, watching TV, playing with cell phone in bed, pay attention to warmth, stay away from cold and cold environment, and avoid cervical spine trauma. Swimming can exercise the neck and shoulder muscles is a better way to exercise, strengthen the neck and shoulder muscle strength, protect the cervical spine, relieve the numbness of the hands.
2. Physical therapy: you can carry out cervical spine baking electricity, traction, ultrasound and other physical therapy, promote local blood circulation, relax local muscles, improve the symptoms of hand numbness.
3. Medication: Oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs and nutritive drugs for treatment, such as ibuprofen extended-release capsules, methylcobalamin, etc., and in the acute stage, dehydration can be applied to improve spinal nerve edema, such as mannitol, to improve the symptoms of numbness in the hand.
4. Surgery: If the conservative treatment is ineffective, the hand numbness symptom is progressively aggravated, or there is muscle weakness, muscle atrophy, you need to actively carry out the intervertebral disc removal, spinal canal enlargement and decompression of bone grafting and fusion of internal fixation surgery.
If patients with cervical spinal stenosis neck painless hand numbness, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, comply with the doctor’s prescription medication, active treatment.