Radiofrequency ablation cures cervical spondylosis Recently, we used “radiofrequency ablation of the cervical nucleus pulposus” to cure the sympathetic cervical spondylosis of Ms. Zhang, a 48-year-old patient, in less than 20 minutes. Ms. Zhang, a Chinese American, was diagnosed with cervical spondylosis by a local hospital in the United States two years ago. At the onset of the disease, she experienced rapid heartbeat, nausea, vomiting, numbness in the upper limbs, inability to stand, and cold sweats. At the end of December, he returned to China for treatment. After being admitted to our hospital, the patient was carefully examined: MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and MRA (magnetic resonance angiography) showed that the patient had a herniated 5-6 cervical disc and a slender and tortuous right vertebral artery, respectively. On the morning of January 15, we treated the patient with the most advanced international radiofrequency ablation technology — using local anesthesia, under the guidance of C-arm X-ray machine, the patient’s anterior cervical trachea was pushed open outside the body, and then a special trocar needle with a diameter of 1 mm was passed through the patient’s cervical trachea. The patient’s anterior cervical trachea was pushed open outside the body under the guidance of C-arm X-ray machine, and then a special trocar needle with a diameter of 1 mm was inserted accurately into the midpoint of the 5-6 cervical disc through the gap between the patient’s trachea, esophageal sheath and cervical vascular sheath. Under the action of radiofrequency, the patient’s herniated cervical disc fibrous ring is reconfigured – the herniated part shrinks and becomes smaller, thus reducing the compression of the nerve root and the treatment achieves its goal. The procedure has no incision and therefore no sutures are required. The procedure took less than 20 minutes to complete when the surgeon placed a piece of “tape” over the only pinhole left in the patient’s body. The patient was able to walk on the floor that afternoon and was discharged to the United States five days later. The use of radiofrequency ablation technology for the treatment of lumbar and cervical disc herniation is a new achievement in foreign research in this century. Unlike traditional treatment methods for lumbar and cervical disc herniation (such as surgical resection, chemical dissolution of drugs, laser vaporization, etc.), it uses low radio frequency as well as plasma ablation technology to dissolve disc tissue quickly and without harming normal tissue. The procedure is less invasive and shorter, and the patient does not bleed and is basically painless during the surgery. Patients recover quickly after surgery – they can get out of bed the same day and be discharged in two days. The procedure is particularly suitable for patients with cervical-shoulder, radicular and sympathetic cervical spondylosis who have failed to respond to conservative treatments such as medications and whose indications for surgery are not obvious, or who are unwilling to undergo surgery, but not for patients with spinal cord type and those suffering from cervical stenosis. This procedure is also applicable to the treatment of lumbar disc herniation. Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has used this technique to treat dozens of patients with lumbar disc herniation and has also achieved satisfactory results.