Teach you about cervical spondylosis

  Cervical spondylosis is one of the common and prevalent diseases in middle-aged and elderly people. According to statistics, its incidence rises with age. In the development of cervical spondylosis, chronic strain is the primary culprit. Long-term damage to local muscles, ligaments and joint capsule can cause local hemorrhagic edema, inflammatory changes, gradual inflammatory mechanization at the site of the lesion, and formation of osteophytes, which affect local nerves and blood vessels. Trauma is a direct factor in the occurrence of cervical spondylosis. Often people already have varying degrees of pathology before trauma, putting the cervical spine at high risk, and trauma directly induces the onset of symptoms. Poor posture is another major cause of cervical spine injury. Long hours of low work, lying in bed watching TV, reading books, like high pillows, long hours of computer operation, violent rotation of the neck or head, sleeping in a moving car, these poor postures will make the neck muscles in a long-term fatigue state, prone to injury. Cervical spine dysplasia or defects are also one of the causes of cervical spondylosis that cannot be ignored. The Asian race has a smaller spinal canal volume compared to Europeans and Americans, which makes it easier for spinal cord compression to occur and produce symptoms.  1.Cervical and shoulder pain can be radiated to the head and occipital region and upper limbs.  2.Heavy feeling in the back of one shoulder, weakness in the upper limbs, numbness in the fingers, loss of sensation in the skin of the limbs, weakness in holding things in the hands, and sometimes unconscious gripping of things on the ground.  3.Serious typical manifestations are: weakness of the lower limbs, unstable walking, numbness of the second foot, and the feeling of stepping on cotton when walking.  4. In the most serious cases, there is even loss of control of bowel movements and urination, sexual dysfunction, and even tetraplegia.  5, often accompanied by head, neck, shoulder, back and arm pain, neck and neck stiffness, limited movement.  6.Some of them are accompanied by dizziness, house rotation, heavy cases are accompanied by nausea and vomiting, bedridden, a few may have vertigo and sudden collapse.  7.When cervical spondylosis involves sympathetic nerve, dizziness, headache, blurred vision, swelling of the second eye, dryness, inability to open the second eye, tinnitus, ear blockage, loss of balance, tachycardia, panic, tightness of the chest, some even have symptoms such as gastrointestinal distention. There are also symptoms such as difficulty in swallowing and pronunciation.  8, most of the onset of the disease is light and not paid attention to, most can recover on their own, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, only when the symptoms continue to aggravate and can not be reversed, affecting the work and life to attract attention. If the disease is left untreated for a long time, it can cause psychological damage and produce symptoms such as insomnia, irritability, anger, anxiety and depression.  The treatment methods for cervical spondylosis can be divided into two categories: non-surgical treatment and surgical treatment. At present, for the treatment of cervical spondylosis, most medical experts advocate non-surgical treatment, and only a few cases require surgical treatment. Non-surgical treatment is a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, and one or two to three of these methods can be selected and implemented at the same time according to different situations. This is the main method of treating cervical spondylosis in Chinese medicine, and is also a more effective treatment measure for cervical spondylosis. Its therapeutic effect is to relieve the tension and spasm of the neck and shoulder muscles, restore the activity of the cervical spine, and release the nerve roots and soft tissue adhesions to relieve the symptoms.  Cervical spine traction therapy This is a more effective and widely used treatment method for cervical spondylosis, through the mutual balance between traction force and counter-traction force, so that the head and neck is relatively fixed in the physiological curve state, so that the cervical spine curve incorrect phenomenon gradually changed, but its efficacy is limited, suitable for patients with mild neurogenic cervical spondylosis, and traction is prohibited in the acute period to prevent local inflammation and edema aggravation.