Cervical spondylosis is a common and frequent disease with complex and variable symptoms, including neck stiffness and pain, restricted movement, neck and shoulder pain, upper limb weakness, finger numbness, etc. In severe cases, paralysis below the neck may occur. Individual patients may have special symptoms such as increased or decreased blood pressure, angina, cardiac arrhythmia, decreased vision, hearing impairment, breast pain, and difficulty swallowing. It can be generally divided into cervical, radicular, spinal, vertebral artery, sympathetic and other types. Treatment of cervical spondylosis can be divided into two categories: non-surgical treatment and surgical treatment. When it comes to surgical treatment, it should not be taken lightly. The anatomical structure of the neck is complex and its physiological role is important: it supports the cranial brain; the blood vessels supplying the brain pass through both sides of the cervical spine; it is the starting point of the digestive and respiratory tracts; and the spinal cord inside the cervical spine is the gateway between the brain and the nerves of the whole body: all sensations outside the head must pass through the cervical spinal cord before they can be transmitted, and the brain cannot command body movements beyond the cervical spinal cord. Therefore, cervical spondylosis is mostly treated non-surgically to ensure safety. However, when non-surgical treatment is not effective, surgical treatment must be considered. Cervical spondylosis is a chronic degenerative disease. Its clinical manifestations are diverse, especially the pulsatile and sympathetic cervical spondylosis, and sometimes it is not easy to confirm the diagnosis. Once you have symptoms in this area, you must ask a specialist to help confirm the diagnosis, otherwise the diagnosis will be delayed and treatment will be delayed. Once the diagnosis is clear, we should generally pay attention to the following aspects: (1) Have a correct understanding of the disease and establish confidence in overcoming the disease: the course of cervical spondylosis is relatively long, and the degeneration of intervertebral discs, bone proliferation and ligament calcification are related to ageing and aging of the body. The disease is often recurrent, and the symptoms may be heavy during the attack, affecting daily life and rest. Therefore, on the one hand, we must eliminate the fear of pessimism, and on the other hand, we must prevent the mentality of getting by and giving up active treatment. (2) About rest: Patients with acute attacks or first attacks of cervical spondylosis should pay proper attention to rest, and those with serious conditions should even take bed rest for 2-3 weeks. Bed rest has an important role in relaxing the neck muscles, reducing muscle spasm and the pressure of the head weight on the intervertebral discs, and the decreasing of tissue pressure edema. However, bed rest should not be too long to avoid changes such as muscle atrophy, tissue adhesions and joint adhesions, which hinder the recovery of cervical spondylosis. Therefore, in the interval and chronic period of cervical spondylosis, it should be appropriate to participate in work. Long-term rest is not necessary. (3) About maintenance: The human body is like a complex machine that needs to be maintained from time to time. Especially cervical spondylosis, itself is a degenerative pathology, but also to protect the neck, try to avoid unnecessary injury. Whether it is sleep, rest. Or study and work, and even some daily movements, we must maintain good habits, never forget the protection of the cervical spine, while strengthening the exercise of the cervical muscle. (4) About treatment: There are non-surgical and surgical treatment methods for cervical spondylosis. The vast majority of patients can be relieved or even cured by non-surgical treatment. However, each treatment method has its unique operation, role and indications, and requires the guidance of a specialist and a certain course of treatment. Cervical traction is the main and effective method of conservative treatment for cervical spondylosis, and its therapeutic effects are realized in the following aspects: (1) limiting the movement of the cervical spine, reducing the repeated friction and adverse stimulation to the compressed spinal cord and nerve roots, and helping the edema and inflammation of the spinal cord, nerve roots, joint capsule, muscles and other tissues to subside. (2) Enlarging the vertebral space and intervertebral foramen, reducing or even relieving the irritation and compression of nerve roots. (3) Release muscle spasm, restore the balance of the cervical spine, reduce the internal pressure of the intervertebral disc, and cushion the pressure of the disc to the surrounding area. (4) To distract the small joint gaps, release synovial inlay, and restore the normal sequence and interrelationship between cervical vertebrae. (5) To straighten the vertebral artery that is twisted between the transverse foramina and improve the blood supply of the vertebral artery. (6) The longitudinal diameter of the cervical spinal canal is elongated, the spinal cord is stretched, the ligamentum flavum is flattened, and the volume of the spinal canal is relatively increased. Correct traction treatment not only relieves muscle spasm, but also improves nerve root irritation symptoms. The time of cervical traction depends on the severity of the patient’s symptoms and the traction effect. If the traction method is correct, but the traction effect is not good, or even there is a lot of discomfort during traction, then simply give up traction. If the symptoms are serious and affect life and work, continuous traction in the lying position is feasible, except for eating and urinating and defecating, 24 hours continuous traction is theoretically the most effective, usually traction during the day and discontinued at night. For those whose symptoms are still tolerable and who cannot give up work and rest, intermittent traction in sitting position can be performed at work and at home, 2-3 times a day, for half an hour to an hour each time. Cervical spine traction is important to adhere to, the method is simple and easy to implement, because the edema of the nerve root takes about 2 weeks or more to subside, generally adhere to 2-3 weeks to have a positive effect.