Among the group of patients who consult me there is now a phenomenon that has to raise the alarm of modern people: younger patients, or those around 40-50 years old, with prolonged neck pain, dizziness and memory loss. If you trace the onset of the process, it often feels as if you have sprained your neck, or some uncertain experience such as fatigue. Generally people do not consider it a big problem and just tolerate it, however, the symptoms sometimes continue to worsen and even cause sensory abnormalities in the surrounding limbs and loss of muscle function. In fact, neck and shoulder pain is a problem that almost all modern people have experienced, from young people in their prime to older people who have suffered from it. Although it is not a life-threatening problem, when it strikes, it definitely affects the quality of life. The neck is made up of various pain-sensitive tissues, including nerves, muscles, ligaments, fascia and joints.
The diagnosis of this condition is not difficult to confirm clinically, but the key is that the refinement of professional subspecialties has led modern doctors to focus on one aspect of the diagnosis of the disease and often pay less attention to other aspects. These patients often have very serious symptoms, but in the eyes of orthopedic or spine doctors, this condition is not considered serious, after all, there are no symptoms of nerve compression, so the treatment is often prescribed ointment, painkillers or blood circulation drugs, and these drugs can really get some effect, but can not get from the root of the cure, and patients are often suffering from repeated changes in the condition, but also Patients are often distressed by the recurring changes in their condition, and are also puzzled by the doctors’ neglect of their condition. Here I need to explain the reason for this situation, so that the majority of patients can understand the problem and stop running in vain for the treatment of neck and shoulder pain. The normal human spine has curvature, the cervical and lumbar spine curvature forward, the thoracic spine curvature backward, in the normal curvature of the cervical and lumbar spine in the best state, the ligaments and intervertebral discs are just the right degree of elasticity, and the maintenance of this curvature relies on the muscle strength. Normal people in the young, relatively more activities, muscle strength in the case of unconscious access to exercise, muscle strength is strong enough to maintain the cervical curvature. With the increase of work pressure and life pressure, modern people are more and more away from activities, more time is spent in front of the desk, computer desk, television, and at this time muscle access to exercise less and less opportunities, and gradually disuse atrophy, muscle strength is weaker and weaker, until finally muscle difficulty in maintaining the normal cervical and lumbar spine physiological curvature, so at this time to the hospital film will usually be told: cervical or lumbar spine The curvature becomes straight. It should be said that at this time there are already symptoms of discomfort in the neck and shoulder or lumbar region, but many people do not care and do not know how to deal with it, life and work must continue, and can only rely on rest or medication to improve. At this time the muscles are already quite fatigued, it will appear chronic strain, the professional term is repeated passive stretching resulting in a chronic inflammatory response to the muscles. Generally speaking the first part of the pain is the muscle abdominal pain, often with obvious pressure points, but massage although feeling pain but often very comfortable. If the muscle strength is still not restored at this time, further fatigue will occur, when the attachment point of the muscle will be repeatedly stretched, long-term past chronic injury leading to the formation of bone superfluous. The intervertebral discs and ligament tissues are in a state of passive tension because the physiological curvature has changed, and when the ligaments are pulled too tight, the ligament attachment points will be repeatedly stretched and damaged, and over time, bone redundancy will appear. At this time, the patient will be told that the disc is herniated or bulging and there is a bone superfluous formation. If the patient is able to improve muscle strength in time, perhaps this chronic degeneration can be terminated, but if there is still no effective improvement in muscle strength, disc herniation aggravated, bone superfluous growth, ligament hypertrophy, compression of the nerve or spinal cord will appear numbness, pain, weakness, until then our modern orthopedic or spine doctors will say to the patients, you should be operated in this case.