How to treat cervical spine compression of vertebral artery

Cervical compression of the vertebral artery belongs to vertebral artery cervical spondylosis, and the specific treatment methods include non-surgical therapy as well as surgical therapy. The non-surgical treatment is general care, medication, etc. The surgical treatment is generally decompression and fixation fusion through the anterior cervical spine. I. Non-surgical therapy 1. General care: when lying down to rest, you can place a pillow on your neck with a pillow height of about one fist, which can keep the normal physiological curvature of the cervical spine and help relieve the symptoms of headache and vertigo caused by vertebral artery cervical spondylosis. Usually pay attention not to turn your head quickly to avoid spasm of the vertebral artery due to the stimulation of the vertebral artery by pulling; 2. Drug treatment: you can apply drugs for diastolic vertebral artery under the guidance of a doctor to relieve the symptoms of insufficient blood supply caused by the compression of the vertebral artery, such as flunarizine hydrochloride, guilizine, etc. You can also take Chinese herbal medicines with blood activation and blood stasis and meridian activation, such as blood activation and pain relief capsule, qi li san, etc., under the guidance of a doctor to relieve the symptoms of insufficient blood supply. 3. Physical therapy: You can apply heat to the back of the neck, and the vertebral artery can be dilated due to the increase in temperature, and you can also combine acupuncture, tuina, cupping, gua sha and other physical therapy modalities to relieve the symptoms. Second, surgical treatment when the compression of the vertebral artery is more serious, the patient vertigo, sudden collapse symptoms occur more frequently, or when non-surgical treatment is not effective, generally need to take in the anterior approach to the carotid cone, through decompression fixation fusion surgery to release the symptoms caused by compression of the vertebral artery. If you are found to be suffering from cervical compression of the vertebral artery, it is recommended that you go to the hospital in time for proper treatment under the guidance of a doctor.