When is surgery required for cervical spondylosis

The most common cervical spondylosis requiring surgical treatment clinically are as follows: 1. Neurogenic cervical spondylosis: Neurogenic cervical spondylosis is mainly based on the compression of nerve roots, resulting in a series of clinical symptoms or signs. Once this type of disease is ineffective after regular conservative treatment, or has produced neurological symptoms, such as upper limb weakness or even muscle atrophy, sensory impairment, etc., or neurogenic cervical spondylosis has appeared pain, resulting in sleepless nights, seriously affecting work or life, this type of patient is in need of surgery, and is usually the type of cervical spondylosis that requires the most surgery; 2, spinal cord type cervical spondylosis, which is caused by the spinal cord nerve This is a type of cervical spondylosis caused by the pressure on the spinal cord and nerves. Since the spinal cord and nerves are directly compressed, it has the most serious consequences. Therefore, once the diagnosis of this type of cervical spondylosis is clear and the neurological symptoms and signs are clear, non-surgical treatment is hardly considered and patients are advised to undergo surgery; 3. Sympathetic cervical spondylosis, which produces symptoms due to cervical instability or vascular compression due to vertebral artery cervical spondylosis, requires surgery only when the symptoms of this type of cervical spondylosis are heavy, but in fact, very few clinical operations are performed.