Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said in the Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, “A sage does not treat the sick to cure the unwell, and does not treat the disorder to cure the unrest. On the basis of the Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, Sun Simiao proposed: “The superior workman treats the undiseased, the intermediate workman treats the desired disease, and the inferior workman treats the existing disease.” The meaning of this sentence is: A highly skilled doctor can detect the disease early when it is not yet developed and intervene to prevent it; a middle-level doctor can treat the disease when it develops to a certain level and control it in time; a low-level doctor often discovers the disease only when a series of signs or discomfort symptoms appear, and treats the disease with acupuncture and medicine. Treatment. In fact, if cervical spondylosis has reached a level that requires surgery, it is already in the late stage of the disease. At this time, serious degenerative lesions have occurred in the cervical spine, resulting in morphological and structural changes in the cervical spine, which in turn compress and stimulate the spinal cord, nerves, blood vessels and sympathetic ganglia, causing complex and widespread symptoms. . Structural changes, unlike functional disorders of organ tissues, mostly require intense external intervention to solve the problem, namely surgical treatment. In cervical spondylosis, for example, it is necessary to avoid all important tissues from the anterior cervical spine, expose the vertebral body, and remove the compressive material in front of the spinal cord through the intervertebral disc space or by removing the vertebral body, as well as reconstruct the stability of the spine with bone grafting and titanium plate fixation to restore the continuity of the spine. No matter how brilliant the surgeon is in this treatment process, he is doing a helpless remedial treatment of “down work to cure the disease”. I don’t dare to call myself a “top worker”, but today I want to do the work of a “top worker”. The treatment of cervical spondylosis, moving forward, is how to prevent cervical spondylosis. It is impossible to prevent whiplash completely. There are many reasons for this, but I would like to emphasize two: 1. Cervical spondylosis is actually part of the aging process of the spine, and some people’s spine ages faster than average because of their congenital constitution. Even in the case of normal spinal degeneration, the timing of the onset is surprising – the human spine begins the degeneration process at age 4. Spinal degeneration begins in the intervertebral discs between the vertebral bodies of the spine. The discs are composed of an internal nucleus pulposus tissue and an external supporting structure, the fibrous annulus, whose important component is proteoglycan, which contains up to 90% water and has excellent viscoelasticity and initial shape recovery. As it grows and ages, the water content of the nucleus pulposus slowly decreases to 70%, and in severe individual discs, even less. The height of the disc is then lost, as if a tire with insufficient air pressure has lost its normal ability to support itself, the nucleus pulposus also gradually loses its elasticity, and the intervertebral body begins to become unstable. At this time, the muscles next to the spine can raise their tone and compensate to restore stability to the spine. When the body continues to age and the muscles are unable to compensate for the stability of the spine, abnormal stresses in the spine affect the ligaments, the hook vertebral joints and the already degenerated discs, resulting in hypertrophy of the ligaments, morphological changes in the production of joint bones and bulging and protruding discs. Among the factors that affect cervical degeneration, there are also factors such as low head occupation and cervical spine trauma. It can be said that it can not be prevented! 2, modern society because of the widespread use of various electronic devices such as computers, cell phones, especially children also gradually began this long-term immobility low head, this impact is early in-depth. Low head, the intervertebral disc tissue between the pressure is normal several times dozen times, is bound to accelerate the degeneration of the intervertebral disc. When the head is lowered, the muscles behind the spine, which are under high tension for a long time, are prone to strain and lose the compensatory ability to restore spinal stability. Hearing this, we should not lose confidence in preventing cervical spondylosis. Although the patient’s congenital constitution and other genetic reasons can not be changed, but we can change the muscles of the neck ah! By following the pathogenesis of cervical spondylosis, we can take targeted measures to achieve certain prevention purposes. In my years of spine surgery work, I have summarized a few points: 1, less head down. It is easy to say, but for IT people who face computers every day, editors and accountants who work long hours, and low-headed people with electronic products, it is more difficult to lower your head less. Suggestions are, if you can not reduce the total time to lower the head, it will be a long time to lower the head, into intermittent low head. In other words, after a period of time, we must raise our heads, appropriate activities of the cervical spine, relax the already tense muscles. I think it is not difficult to do. 2, neck warmth. Winter scarf, wear high-collared clothes and so on can keep warm, generally not difficult to do. Summer air conditioning cool clothes less critical, you can choose a light sarong appropriate to do neck warming. Because the cold will reduce the blood supply to the muscles, easy to cause early muscle strain. If the neck has been cold, it should be hot physiotherapy and other methods to restore muscle blood supply as soon as possible. The Internet is not someone said that you can use the hair dryer to heat the neck, which is also an option in the absence of other measures. 3, appropriate activities cervical spine. Here, I did not say cervical spine exercise, because I think the systemic cervical spine exercise, said too complex, not strong operability, compliance is not good, but not useful. I recommend the simple and easy “ten” method: from the head-up position to the head-down position as if writing a “vertical”, from looking to the left slowly become to the right as if writing a “horizontal”, horizontal and vertical cross for “4, strengthen the strength of the neck muscles. One of the most important is the strength of the cervical spine muscles, the specific method is: sitting or standing position, hands crossed on the top of the head backward position, force so that the head has a tendency to low forward, while the head backward against the hands, in the head and hands against the back of the neck muscles are exercised, the specific number of confrontation, personal capacity to feel a slight fatigue of the neck can be. I would also like to emphasize that prevention of cervical spondylosis is only called prevention when there is no cervical spondylosis, so please, start taking measures now, after all, we only have a cervical spine, and it is so important. Friends who already have symptoms of cervical spondylosis can also refer to my suggestions as appropriate, which can play a role in slowing down the development of cervical spondylosis. Let us all become our own “workers”!