Usually, one cannot accurately determine whether one is suffering from cervical spondylosis and needs to go to the hospital for relevant examination to confirm the diagnosis, but people can make preliminary judgment based on clinical symptoms. There are many clinical subtypes of cervical spondylosis, and the corresponding symptoms are also different. According to the common cervical spondylosis subtypes, the following symptoms are available for people to make preliminary self-judgment: 1. Neurogenic cervical spondylosis: The symptoms of neck and shoulder pain at the beginning are rapidly aggravated within a short period of time, and some patients have symptoms such as radioactive pain in the upper limbs and numbness in the skin. Patients with more severe symptoms may experience decreased muscle strength in the upper limbs, poor mobility of the fingers, and limited movement of the affected limbs. 2. Spinal cord type cervical spondylosis: Patients often have symptoms such as sensory, motor, reflex and dysfunction of the limbs. In the early stage of the disease, patients often have symptoms such as numbness of the upper or lower limbs, inability to exert normal force, stiffness of the limbs, a feeling of stepping on cotton when walking on the lower limbs, a feeling of binding of the limbs and the chest and abdomen, and inability to perform fine movements of the hands, etc. Some patients may have symptoms such as dysfunction of the bowels at a later stage due to the influence of the spinal cord. More serious patients may faint suddenly when turning the cervical vertebrae, and there may also be a certain impact on the patient’s heart function and gastrointestinal function; 4. Sympathetic cervical spondylosis: Patients may experience sympathetic excitation or inhibition, such as headache, dizziness, numbness, dullness of sensation and chills in the face or trunk, and some patients may have tinnitus, hearing, memory loss, insomnia, etc. memory loss, insomnia, palpitations and other symptoms. It is recommended that if patients have symptoms of neck discomfort and suspect that they have cervical spine disease, they should go to a regular hospital in a timely manner and improve relevant examinations, such as X-ray, CT examinations, magnetic resonance imaging, etc., which can also clarify the type of disease and then take symptomatic treatment.