Some hypertension angina gastritis due to cervical spondylosis

  People generally think that cervical spondylosis is nothing more than neck and back pain. It is not known that the cervical spine, which is borne by the head and connected to the trunk, has a dense neurovascular distribution, is an important part of the human nerve center, and is also a necessary route for cerebral blood circulation, so it is an accident-prone area of the human body. Once the disease occurs, it will certainly affect the cardiovascular and central nervous system, resulting in all kinds of cervicogenic diseases, which can be said to involve a hair and move the whole body.      After middle age, cervical disc degeneration aggravates, which can cause adjacent nerves, blood vessels and spinal cord compression, resulting in intricate and variable symptoms, namely cervical spondylosis. The forward flexion activity of the cervical spine is centered on the 4 5 and 5 6 cervical spine, and the posterior extension activity is centered on the 4 5 cervical spine, and the stress on the lower cervical segment is the greatest and more concentrated in the cervical spine activity, so the degeneration of the intervertebral discs of the 4 5, 5 6 and 6 7 cervical spine occurs earliest and most often clinically. After acute or chronic injury to the intervertebral disc, a post-injury repair response is generated, and a mixed herniation consisting of a bone flab, damaged disc tissue, and posterior longitudinal ligament can be formed. When it protrudes to the posterior side, it compresses the nerve root and produces symptoms of nerve root compression and irritation; when it protrudes to the lateral side, it compresses the vertebral artery or stimulates the sympathetic nerve and produces symptoms of insufficient blood supply to the vertebral artery or sympathetic nerve; when it protrudes to the posterior side, it compresses the spinal cord and produces symptoms of spinal cord compression; when the protrusion lies between the above-mentioned different parts and compresses and stimulates different tissues at the same time, it can produce mixed symptoms. Therefore, clinically, cervical spondylosis is generally divided into five types: neurogenic, vertebral artery, sympathetic nerve, spinal cord and mixed type.  In addition, there are some not uncommon types that appear to be “unrelated” to cervical spondylosis, or even confusing symptoms, which often lead to misdiagnosis and mistreatment.  1, cervicogenic hypertension due to vertebrobasilar: arterial blood supply malfunction, cervical sympathetic nerve stimulation resulting in dysfunction, in addition to the general symptoms of cervical spondylosis, and hypertension. Such diseases are not treated according to hypertension, and blood pressure decreases after the symptoms of cervical spondylosis are controlled.  2, cervicogenic cerebrovascular disease: 26% of the nearly 1 million cerebrovascular patients in the country each year are induced by cervical spondylosis. This is due to the compression of the vertebrobasilar artery, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain, long-term maintenance of this state, there will be dizziness, numbness of the hands and feet, unstable walking, and even cerebral thrombosis, cerebral infarction, some patients can lead to hemiplegia. If cervical spondylosis is treated in time, it will not deteriorate into serious consequences such as stroke and hemiplegia.  3, cervicogenic angina: suffer from “angina”, general drug treatment is ineffective, should think about whether it is due to cervical spondylosis. This is due to damage to the cervical nerve roots that innervate the diaphragm and pericardium, or stimulation of the sympathetic nerves of the heart. The patient may experience pain in the precordial region, and pressure on the pressure area near the cervical spine can induce pain. When the head is in a specific position and posture, the symptoms can be aggravated, and reduced after changing the position, and treatment according to cervical spondylosis can receive obvious results.  4, cervicogenic gastritis: due to cervical sympathetic nerve stimulation or injury, resulting in hyperfunction, through the cerebral cortex and thalamus reflexively cause gastrointestinal sympathetic nerve function excitement, pyloric sphincter excessive tension, diastolic weakness, so that the stomach, duodenum retroperitoneum, prompting bile reflux and damage to stimulate the gastric mucosa, thus causing acute or chronic inflammation of the stomach.  5, cervicogenic tics: the patient’s head is tilted to one side and frequently twitches more than once. The first case encountered by the author was almost mistaken for Parkinson’s syndrome, but after careful examination, cervical spine lesions were found, and the patient was tried to be treated as cervical spondylosis, using the dual therapy of internal and external herbal medicine and acupuncture point injection, resulting in the suspension of twitching after one week and miraculous recovery after one month.  6, cervicogenic dysphagia: this kind of disease is due to the rapid rate of osteophytes in the lower cervical vertebrae, the bone superfluity is too large, compressing the esophagus immediately in front, inflammation, edema and stenosis, which is easily misdiagnosed as esophageal disease in clinical practice.  Thus, when some patients often have headache, toothache, trigeminal neuralgia, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, insomnia, irritability or mental depression, visual and hearing impairment, abnormal taste and smell and skin sensation, cardiac arrhythmia and other symptoms and ineffective treatment, it is worth checking the cervical spine, do not “headache doctor, foot pain doctor”, because the lesion It is likely to be in the cervical spine.